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The Boko Haram extremists have agreed to release 82 schoolgirls who were captured in 2014. Many of the girls’ parents have met in Abuja, Nigeria to reconnect with their daughters while some remained home. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari met with the girls early Monday morning before leaving for London.

The Trump Administration is continuing its assault on the Obama legacy. According to CNN, they have passed around a memo with plans to end Let Girls Learn, an initiative started by First Lady Michelle Obama in 2015 to help girls in developing country go to schools.

Maria Stuart noticed something was missing from her favorite books: herself. The RedBlkGrl founder created the subscription box filled with books for Black girls who want to see themselves in their favorite stories.

The Washington Metropolitan Police Department has made a regular practice out of posting information on missing children in the D.C. area daily. While the faces of dozens of missing Black and Latina girls filled the Twitter feed, people started to notice the horrifying pattern. 

Last weekend in Chicago, a 15-year-old Black girl was raped by a gang of five or six boys and men. Making it several levels more horrific, this vicious assault was streamed on Facebook Live.

In January, Officer Ruben De Los Santos was still on paid administrative leave despite the release of a video that showed him slamming a 15-year-old girl to the ground after a fight broke out before school one day. While De Los Santos resigned earlier this month, a North Carolina Grand Jury declined to press charges […]

Going out to schools and speaking to kids can be an uphill battle. Minutes of speaking and building up their support and interest can easily go to waste in seconds after saying a couple of the wrong things. Jameis Winston, quarterback for the Tampa Bay Bucaneers, learned this the hard way recently. 

If you can get a dinner for two delivered to your house once a week there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to open your door and find a box filled with the spirit of  women of color such as Angela Davis, Frida Kahlo and Assata Shakur. To fill that need, two Brooklynites, Brittany […]

Harlem-based writer, Brooke Obie, has some ideas about freedom that you need to hear. In her debut novel, Book of Addis: Cradled Embers, the first book in a three part series, she tells the story of 17-year-old enslaved Igbo girl, Addis, who kills her enslaver, the president of the new country Amerika. In this story, […]

A girl’s basketball team from Plainfield High School in New Jersey was welcomed to a school they’d be playing against with a black dummy with a string tied around its neck and a basketball at the end of it. While changing in a classroom at Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark, New Jersey on Saturday morning, […]

“I’m thankful for being born indigenous to this continent,” a powerful statement I could never make; a powerful statement most people that live in this country cannot make, but one young Native American girl did in a video about the truth behind Thanksgiving with a group of 5 of her peers.

There’s long been a stereotype that the majority of individuals who make up the nerd population are extremely out of touch with women. This is clearly false as many women consider themselves to be nerds. But, even while that’s the case, it seems that we can’t get far enough from that age-old cliche before someone drops […]