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.
WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING
SEPTEMBER
12
4:00 PM TO 6:00PM
Walter E Washington Convention Center
801 Mt Vernon PL NW, Washington DC
ROOM 144 B-C
BLACK GIRLS IN HIGH SCHOOL ARE*
more likely to receive out-of-school suspensions than white female students.
more likely to receive 1 or more in-school suspensions than white female students.
more likely to be restrained than white female students.
more likely to receive corporal punishment than white female students.
more likely to be arrested than white females.
more likely to be referred to law enforcement than white females.
*SOURCE: Discipline Data for Girls in US Public Schools, Department of Education office for Civil Rights, 2018
THIS HAS TO CHANGE, OUR GIRLS DESERVE MORE.
Meet the five girls featured in the film. Learn how they overcame challenges, how they are doing now, and how their parents, teachers, and mentors are standing with them.
“I didn’t know what to do, there is so much rage building in me.”
“Why not go to heaven now? I didn’t want to be here.”
“I really wondered why they would treat me like this. What’s wrong with me?
“I wasn’t fighting for myself, I was fighting because I wanted to be loved.”
