Black girls

House Honors Four Little Girls Killed in Birmingham Church Bombing

Golf Prodigy Ginger Howard is Youngest Member of LPGA

Teacher Accused of Molestation Claims She’s Racist; Wouldn’t Feel Comfortable Touching a Black Child

13 Year-Old Shardae Simmonds Uses CPR to Save Her Father’s Life

Chicago Youth on Gun Violence: “It Feels Like We’re in a World War”

Editorial Asks “Where Are Ordinary Black Youth in Popular Culture?”

Mystery of Abandoned Toddler’s Identity Solved Thanks to Social Media

Father Indicted After Beating His Daughters Over “Twerking” Video

Moms Start Petition Demanding Mattel Make Barbie Accessories for People of Color

College Student Returns Lost Wallet Containing $1,000

Four Year-Old Rahquel Carr Shot and Killed in Car in Miami

Mourners Pack South Side Church for Jonylah Watkins Funeral

Lupe Fiasco Releases ‘Jonylah Forever’ (Jonylah Watkins Tribute)

Chicago Bulls’ Derrick Rose Will Pay for Jonylah Watkins’ Funeral

6 Month-Old Jonylah Watkins Dies After Being Shot 5 Times in Chicago

Parents Turn in Their Sons After Seeing Surveillance Video of Robbery

Family of Rekia Boyd Could Receive $4.5 Million Settlement w/ City of Chicago

Kelly Rowland Talks Learning to Love Her Brown Skin

‘Out-of-Control’ 8 Year-old Handcuffed, Jailed for Two Hours for Throwing Tantrum

Former Staffers at The Onion Denounce CEO’s Decision to Apologize for Quvenzhané Wallis Tweet

Two Teens Arrested for Instigating and Filming Fight Between Two 7 Year-old Girls

The Onion’s CEO Apologizes to 9 Year-Old Quvenzhané Wallis

The Onion Tweets an Incredibly Bad Joke about 9 Year-Old Quvenzhané Wallis

Stop Saying Little Black Girls Are “Too Grown”

Janay McFarlane Killed Same Day Her Sister Attended President’s Gun Violence Speech

Chicago Police Set to File Charges Against Two Suspects in Hadiya Pendleton Shooting

Hundreds Gather to Attend Funeral for Hadiya Pendleton

First Lady Michelle Obama Will Attend Hadiya Pendleton’s Funeral

7 Year-Old Zora Ball Is Youngest Person to Create Mobile Video Game

VIDEO: Hadiya Pendleton Appeared in Anti-Gang PSA

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