We Must Stop the Adultification of Black Girls

Despite popular belief, Black girls are children too

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There are plenty of things that were normalized when I was a kid. But when I look back over my childhood, observing the difference in treatment between my friends and me, there are so many things I wish I could have called out. But just like those friends who needed protecting, I had no idea that…