Imagining Better Futures: A Vision for Black Girls' Lives
Artwork by Paul Davey. From This American Life.com
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In the fall of 2015 students at the University of Missouri protested racial injustice on campus. Ultimately they were able to oust the president of their campus.
The story is always, however, told from the point of view of the football players who refused to play that weekend. The young Black women behind the scenes and at the frontlines, however, must not be forgotten. |
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"I think I've had experiences of you know going to class like in high school, going to class, and you know playing sports but I feel like this constant feeling of being excluded. I was just tired of that. I wanted to feel like I belonged." -Tiana "I don't know I felt like a pull. I couldn't go on with my daily life." -Sasha |
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"Right before [a white supremacist event on campus] the formation video came out and I will never ever ever ever ever forget planning for that event and being in a room full of women of color and like watching the formation video [voice gets excited]." - Nami |
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"It's fulfilling in the sense that there is a lot of camaraderie and love that. I don't think you get that, especially on a PWI-campus. You don't get it from the administration, you don't get it from your classmates, you don't even get it from your professors half the time. So in that sense it can be very very fulfilling." -Jasmine
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