Though the hashtags and corporate branding for BlackHistoryMonth may have ended, Black girls in Florida continue to be criminalized by harmful policies, and ultimately left behind. MaryMarxPace is envisioning a more equitable future for girls in Florida:
Pace provides girls and young women an opportunity for a better future through education, counseling, training and advocacy.
Pass public policies that improve well-being and address the disparity in justice system entry points. Identify and implement best practices and solutions that other states and jurisdictions are using to reduce systemic disparities for Black girls. , based in Jacksonville, Fla., envisions a better, more equitable future for the Sunshine State’s young women, especially its Black girls.
It’s a whole system failure. The education and the justice systems are two systems in which inequality is being perpetuated. Black girls are also more likely to be victims of violence when compared to other segments of the population. They are three times more likely to be victims of child abuse or neglect, and five times more likely to be victims of homocide. If you include human trafficking on top of all of that, you find that 40% of human trafficking victims are Black girls.
Family instability, poverty, disconnection from the education system, physical and sexual trauma, systemic racism, discrimination and economic inequality—all of these things combined place a really heavy burden on kids of color, and particularly Black girls.
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