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The classroom as first courtroom: Jada’s story
Jada and other Black girls often take the first steps toward the delinquency pipeline in the schoolroom, where teachers too often misread curiosity as sassiness—or as Louisiana law describes it, "willful disobedience." [...] Read More... from The classroom as first courtroom: Jada’s story The post The classroom as first courtroom: Jada’s story appeared first
90% of Louisiana foster youth face re-victimization. One senator believes that the state could do better by abolishing DCFS altogether.
Louisiana's child welfare system was built to protect children. For Black girls, it has become another door into the pipeline. [...] Read More... from 90% of Louisiana foster youth face re-victimization. One senator believes that the state could do better by abolishing DCFS altogether. The post 90% of Louisiana foster youth face re-victimization. One senator
The boy in the video, the boy in the mugshot: Louisiana met Markel Lee twice
A Baton Rouge teenager once appeared on camera as proof that violence prevention could work. Two years later, he is charged in a shooting that killed 17-year-old Martha Odom. Their stories are not separate tragedies. They are connected by the same policy choices, budget cuts and abandoned promises that leave one child dead and another held by a system that f
The fields are still there: red beans and resistance
My mother has been saying it my whole life. Fifty-one years of hearing it. And on May 16, 2026, the same day she passed away and left me with the torch to continue this work, 800,000 people proved she was not just warning us. [...] Read More... from The fields are still there: red beans and resistance The post The fields are still there: red beans and resist
The fields have a stadium now
The NAACP should help top Black student athletes forgo SEC money and honor the NAACP voting-rights boycott — without having to take a back seat. [...] Read More... from The fields have a stadium now The post The fields have a stadium now appeared first on The Lens .