At Justice for Black Girls, we recognize that the criminalization of Black girls disrupts the safety, well-being, and future opportunities of Black girls nationally. We also center Black girls as justice leaders with the power to innovate ways to disrupt carceral schooling.

We’ve partnered with Ben & Jerry’s and invite you to join the fight to End School Pushout.

Learn more by rewatching presentations led by our JBG Ambassadors:

1) The Adultification & Criminalization of Black Girlhood

2) 6 Years After Spring Valley: Black Girls Resistance in Schools

3) The Suppression of Black Girl Magic in Institutions

Ending the criminalization of Black girls is essential to building the world that Black girls have always deserved.

Through coalition-building, policy advocacy, education, and direct action, Justice for Black Girls continues to be a leading force in challenging the systemic criminalization of Black girls

Learn more about the End Pushout Act

Learn more about School Pushout data curated by the National Black Womens Justice Institute

At Justice for Black Girls, we recognize that hair discrimination is a form of racial and gender-based oppression that directly contributes to the confinement of Black girlhood. Data reveals that as early as 5 Black girls are receiving demeaning messaging about their hair.

Schools and workplaces often police Black girls’ natural hair, reinforcing harmful narratives that deem their identity and expression as unacceptable. The CROWN Act, which prohibits race-based hair discrimination, is critical to ensuring that Black girls can exist freely in educational and professional spaces without punishment or bias. By amplifying The CROWN Act, we push for policies that affirm Black girls' right to wear their hair naturally, combat systemic exclusion, and affirm that Black girls hair is sacred.

Learn more about the C.R.O.W.N. Act and disrupt racially discriminatory hair policies across the nation 

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Watch Ode to Black Girlhood Part III: Black Girl Hair is Art at Every Moment, a mini film featuring JBG Ambassadors amplifying the importance of the CROWN Act and its unique impact on Black girlhood while celebrating the sacredness of Black girls hair.

At Justice for Black Girls, we recognize the state of Black girls’ mental health as a public health crisis that demands urgent, sustained, and culturally responsive action.

Black girls are navigating conditions that profoundly shape their mental health and well-being—from racism, adultification, gender-based violence, and school criminalization to economic instability, cultural erasure, and barriers to accessing affirming mental health care. Their distress cannot be separated from the systems and environments in which they are expected to learn, grow, and survive.

Addressing this crisis requires transforming the conditions that produce harm while investing in the conditions that allow Black girls to experience safety, belonging, connection, tenderness, joy, and care.

Justice for Black Girls advocates for a holistic approach to Black girls’ mental health that recognizes healing as both a public health priority and a necessary condition of liberation. Through healing-centered programming, culturally responsive education, research, advocacy, and partnerships, we work to build environments where Black girls have access to the care, community, and resources necessary for their sustained thriving.

As a proud practitioner organization within the Black Girl Mental Health Sisterhood, Justice for Black Girls works alongside a collective of researchers, and organizations to advance mental health support systems & outcomes for Black girls nationally. (BGMHS is led by Dr. Lauren Mims, NYU Homeplace Lab)

Learn more about the Black Girl Mental Health Sisterhood

Watch Ode to Black Girlhood Part II: Rest & Restoration

Black girls deserve a healing less focused on surviving harmful conditions and more focused on cultivating the conditions necessary to be well.

At Justice for Black Girls, we know that barriers to opportunity for Black girls can exist in any space.

New data showing that Black Girl Scouts are denied access to high-visibility sales locations highlights the systemic inequities that limit their ability to thrive. These disparities don’t just impact cookie sales—they affect funding for programming, leadership opportunities, and holistic investment.

JBG proudly leads our Black Girl Scout Marketplace campaign, challenging exclusionary practices, uplifting Black girls in all spaces, ensuring that all Black girls have opportunities to thrive in any space they choose to occupy.

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