Empowerment Film Series: "Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools"

Join us for this month's installment of the Empowerment Film Series.

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is a feature-length documentary which takes a close look at the educational, judicial and societal disparities facing Black Girls. Inspired by the groundbreaking book of the same name by renowned scholar, Monique W. Morris, Ed.D. The documentary confronts the ways in which the misunderstanding of Black girlhood has led to excessive punitive discipline which in turn disrupts one of the most important factors in their lives, their education.