Judy Gold to Headline Ha! Ridge Hill; The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

 

Here’s what’s happening?Today in the 914,?according to Westchester Woman:

1.) Judy Gold will be the first female comic to headline Westchester comedy club Ha! Ridge Hill. Gold is beyond hilarious, talented and has a lengthy list of accolades, which you can find here.

Gold, a mother of two, is active in both the LGBT and Jewish communities. Here’s her video promo for the Jewish Community Center (JCC) on the Hudson in Tarrytown.

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2.)?Monique W. Morris, co-founder of the?National Black Womens Justice Institute, says that the instances of a 16-year-old black teen?being expelled for a science experiment; another girl?tossed to the ground during a pool party fight; an another thrown across the room in a South Carolina classroom are not all coincidences.

She says the U.S. has a trend of judging and condemning black girls and teens based on ideologies of racism and patriarchy, and explores this in her new book ?Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools.

Read more about it in The Atlantic below:

 

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