FREE TO RISE, IN THE LOOP, THE GLOBAL WOMEN'S INSTITUTE AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM TO HOST:
"BREAKING SILENCE: A TOWN HALL HEARING ON GIRLS OF COLOR" TO ELEVATE THE EXPERIENCES AND NEEDS OF GIRLS OF COLOR IN DC
Washington D.C. – Free to Rise, In the Loop, the Global Women's Institute and the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) will host a town hall titled, "Breaking Silence: A Town Hall Hearing on Girls of Color," to elevate the inequities experienced by girls and women of color for the public, policy makers, philanthropic leaders and other decision makers.
The town hall will be held on Monday, April 20 from 5:00-8:00 pm at Howard Middle School of Mathematics and Science Theatre 405 Howard Pl NW, Washington DC 20001, and will be moderated by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law Schools and Founder/Executive Director of The African American Policy Forum and hosted by Howard University.
Despite increasing public concern for the needs of boys and men of color through initiatives such as the White House's My Brother's Keeper Initiative (MBK) and the Open Society Foundation's Black Male Achievement Initiative, the voices of girls and women of color, who live under the same inequitable and impoverished conditions as their male counterparts, have not garnered the same support and attention. AAPF's recent report, Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected, demonstrated that Black girls are punished and criminalized in ways that are similar to and markedly different from their male counterparts. Yet these initiatives have leveraged millions of public and private dollars as well as programmatic supports to advance the needs of boys and men of color, while ignoring the systemic inequities experienced throughout the entire community.
This town hall is part of a series of hearings that have taken place in cities throughout the country to elevate the lived experiences of girls and the inequities they experience in regards to school discipline, incarceration, state-sanctioned violence, domestic violence, trafficking and poverty. Over the past year, the #WhyWeCantWait and #BlackGirlsMatter campaigns have been advocating for the inclusion of women and girls of color in MBK with the understanding that racial justice cannot be advanced by only focusing on half of our communities and by ignoring the systemic conditions we collectively experience. Through "Breaking Silence," we hope to elevate the fact that the personal and institutional barriers facing boys and young men of color are also confronted by girls and women, and any racial justice initiative geared towards removing those barriers must account for the lives of all youth of color.
For more information, please contact AAPF's Associate Director Rachel Gilmer at Rachel.Gilmer@aapf.org.
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