
Just 16 percent of female students, Black girls make up more than one-third of all girls with a school-related arrest. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school. Morris Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Community Reads: Spring 2016 | Between the World and Me.Community Reads: Fall 2016 | Citizen: An American Lyric.Community Reads: Winter 2018 | On Tyranny.

Community Reads: Spring 2018 | So You Want to Talk About Race.Community Reads: Fall 2018 | When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.Community Reads: Winter 2019 | Heart Berries: A Memoir.Community Reads: Spring 2019 | Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds.Fall 2019 | Freedom is a Constant Struggle.Winter 2020 | Freedom is a Constant Struggle.


