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NBWJI Book Club September Selection: Talk With You Like a Woman
"Talk With You Like A Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935" by Cheryl D. Hicks is our September...
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Lift Our Voices
The “Lift Our Voices” blog features analysis and opinion from NBWJI’s experts on the latest issues and news.
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- Jul 28, 2021
- 4 min
Contextualizing BIPOC Youth Mental Health
July is National BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month, which recognizes the unique mental health issues that Black, Indigenous, People of...
NBWJI
- Jun 28, 2021
- 2 min
LGBTQ People in the Criminal Legal System
As we celebrate Pride this month, we must acknowledge its history—which is at least partially a story of police violence against Black women
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- Jun 7, 2021
- 5 min
The Case for Focusing on Black Girls’ Mental Health
Black girls have serious unmet mental health needs—it has been called a mental health crisis “hiding in plain sight.”
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- May 5, 2021
- 3 min
Youth-Led Mental Health Council Aims to Promote Healing Amid Pandemic & Racial Unrest
15 youth leaders & organizations awarded an opportunity to inform policy solutions that better serve the mental health of BIPOC youth
NBWJI
- May 4, 2021
- 1 min
NBWJI Book Club May Selection: A Little Piece of Light
“A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and Life Unbound” by Donna Hylton is our May selection for the NBWJI Book Club. In...
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- Apr 20, 2021
- 2 min
NBWJI Statement on the Police Killing of Ma’Khia Bryant
We are angry and anguished at learning that police in Columbus, OH, killed Ma’Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old Black girl. Ma’Khia called the...
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- Apr 19, 2021
- 1 min
NBWJI Statement on Verdict in Derek Chauvin Case
With today's verdict in the case of Derek Chauvin, we are thinking about George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the many untold number of...
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