Black Children and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

My upscale neighborhood didn’t protect my daughter from being a target

Rasheena Fountain
ZORA
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7 min readJul 31, 2019

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Illustration: Geneva Bowers

II always strove to give my daughter access to good schools in “safe” areas, but an experience in a public school has taught me how students of color, even in well-resourced schools and neighborhoods, can fall victim to the school-to-prison pipeline. As The New Jim

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Rasheena Fountain
ZORA
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an artist, growing scholar, musician, poet, and essayist with focus on Black environmental memory, literature, migration studies, and blues/other Black music.