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Top Stories published by Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues in February of 2020

National Center for Institutional Diversity in Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues

A mother kissing her daughter

Vulnerability and Strength: Black Mothers Raising Free Black Girls

by Seanna Leath

National Center for Institutional Diversity in Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues

A Black mother and father holding their baby

Evolving the “Single Black Mother” Narrative

By Christina M. Grange

National Center for Institutional Diversity in Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues

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“My Hair is Bomb”: Black Girls’ Identities and Resistance

By Leoandra Onnie Rogers

National Center for Institutional Diversity in Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues

Two young Black girls smiling in front of a multi-colored wall

Celebrating Black Women and Girls: 50 Years of Black Women’s Studies

National Center for Institutional Diversity in Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues

A young Black girl with braids

Her Body, Her Style: Black Girls Fashioning Freedom

By Dominique C. Hill

National Center for Institutional Diversity in Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues

Two young Black girls in pink tutus

Politics of Hair Care: Black Motherhood, Black Girlhood, and Intergenerational Learning

National Center for Institutional Diversity in Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues

Three Black women looking over their shoulder

Black Women Scholars on Identity, Research, and Black Women’s Studies: A Roundtable with Anita Gonzalez and Taifha…

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Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues

The Online Magazine of the National Center for Institutional Diversity

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Institutional Racism

Editors

Laura Sanchez-Parkinson

National Center for Institutional Diversity

Charlotte Victoria Ezzo

Writers

Larissa Mercado-Lopez

Debra Guckenheimer

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