Pushed out and punished: One woman's story shows how systems are failing black girls

Pushed out and punished: One woman's story shows how systems are failing black girls

For the first time in a long time, C’alra Bradley felt a glint of hope. It was an unfamiliar feeling for the then-18-year-old whose life had been disrupted and derailed by one roadblock after another. Once an A and B student who loved to read, she was living out of her white 1997 Toyota Avalon, on her own for three years, scrounging to get by.

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