“You’re gonna hear them before you see them.” The security guard at the high school where I was going to be leading workshops with a group of sophomore girls left me with this statement as I moved from his desk and headed to the small room where the young women and I would meet twice a week over the next nine months. In his voice, I recognized a tone I had heard before when adults talk about teenage girls – especially girls who happen to be Black and attend public schools their cities define as failing. Even if most read more >>>

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