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Engaging Black Girls And Women From The Capital Region, Neimra Coulibaly
Engaging Black Girls And Women From The Capital Region, Neimra Coulibaly
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Black girls and women sit at the intersecting identities of being Black and women in an anti-Black, patriarchal, misogynistic society. There are certain experiences that Black women in the United States endure due to historically negative perceptions of Black women.
When I decided to be a part of the engagement journalism program at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, I decided to cover the community of Black girls and women from Schenectady, New York, and the rest of the Capital Region or what I call the (518)
For the past year and a half, I have covered the …