Lost Innocence:
The Adultification of Black Children
A series by Anissa Durham
Anissa is the health data journalist for Word In Black. She reports on healthcare inequities in the Black community.
Why Do We View Black Girls as Sex Objects?
Black girls are so often viewed as sex objects that the blame is shifted to the girls being sexualized instead of the adults.
Black Children Deserve to Be Children
Black girls are called “fast” and boys are seen as men. Both lose their innocence thanks to adultification bias.
If Parents Don’t Protect Their Kids From Abuse, Who Will?
1 in 4 Black girls will be sexually abused before age 18. When the women we spoke to told their parents, they weren’t protected.
Life and Death: When Police Criminalize Young Black Men
In and out of schools, Black youth fear for their lives. And, for one teen in California, that fear comes every time he gets in his car.
