By A National Agenda for Black Girls Team In November 2019, Girls for Gender Equity launched A National Agenda for Black Girls (NABG) to center the experience of Black girls and gender non-conforming youth in national conversations leading up to the 2020 elections. As evidenced by the record-breaking turnout during…

By A National Agenda for Black Girls Team Many of us have never experienced what happened yesterday ever in our lives. Many of us were taught to believe in the democratic process, we were taught to believe that voting in the United States was sacred and protected. Instead, we are…

In creating A National Agenda for Black Girls, Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) partnered with seven non-profit organizations whose missions reflected our own: to tangibly improve the lives of Black girls in this country through substantive advocacy, policy and culture-shifting work. Youth participants from each of these organizations were then…

Dear Community, On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers of the Civil Rights Movement set out on a journey from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to continue to fight for the right to vote as Black Americans. The fight that followed left 58 people injured, including then twenty-five-year-old John Lewis, chairman…

You are reading the A National Agenda for Black Girls weekly newsletter. A National Agenda for Black Girls a Girls for Gender Equity initiative focused on centering Black girls in our national policies. Want to receive more NABG insights and updates? Sign up for the newsletter here. Dear Community, There…

You are reading an A National Agenda for Black Girls weekly newsletter. A National Agenda for Black Girls a Girls for Gender Equity initiative focused on centering Black girls in our national policies. Want to receive more NABG insights and updates? Sign up for the newsletter here. In our last…

You are reading an A National Agenda for Black Girls weekly newsletter. A National Agenda for Black Girls a Girls for Gender Equity initiative focused on centering Black girls in our national policies. Want to receive more NABG insights and updates? Sign up for the newsletter here. There is a…

You are reading an A National Agenda for Black Girls weekly newsletter. A National Agenda for Black Girls a Girls for Gender Equity initiative focused on centering Black girls in our national policies. Want to receive more NABG insights and updates? Sign up for the newsletter here. We have a…

You are reading an A National Agenda for Black Girls weekly newsletter. A National Agenda for Black Girls a Girls for Gender Equity initiative focused on centering Black girls in our national policies. Want to receive more NABG insights and updates? Sign up for the newsletter here. Our last newsletter…