Capital B is exploring why Black people are more likely to die and experience severe health complications related to childbirth, an issue highlighted in our project about Georgia’s maternal care deserts.
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.
One in four 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.
A reader’s guide to what adultification bias is, how it shapes the lives of Black children, and why this stereotype of Black childhood needs to change.
For the past decade, the vast majority of the young people in Louisville’s secure detention facility have been black. A reporter wonders why more people aren't talking about the disparity.
While the genetic disease received widespread attention during the Civil Rights Movement, researchers and doctors say patients continue to suffer from a lack of adequate treatment.
