Health data reporter
Anissa Durham is the health data reporter for Word in Black. She earned her bachelor’s degree in marketing from National University. As a former general assignment reporter for inewsource, Anissa reported on historically neglected communities and systemic racism. Her work has also appeared in The San Diego Union-Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Voice of San Diego, and more.
I spent six months reporting on the abuse and mistreatment Black children experience. The topics ranged from child sexual abuse, to suicidal ideation, to mental health crises.
Listen in as WIB managing director Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier joins health data reporter Anissa Durham to discuss a behind-the-scenes look at reporting on adultification bias.
Hear the brave voices of those who went on the record about their experiences being criminalized and sexualized.
I spent months talking with Black folks for my series, “Lost Innocence: The Adultification of Black Children.” Here’s what I learned.
Black girls are called “fast” and boys are seen as men. Both lose their innocence thanks to adultification bias.
Black girls are so often viewed as sex objects that the blame is shifted to the girls being sexualized instead of the adults.
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.
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.
These issues have received little to no reporting, but a new project aims to change that.
