Black Girls Day at the Capitol Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020
(Photo Gallery • Tori Lynn Schneider/Tallahassee Democrat)
Jadelly Fox, 15, a young mother with the Southern Birth Justice Network, highlights issues faced by Black mothers while holding her young baby during a press conference held for Black Girls Day in the fourth floor Capitol rotunda.
Candii Reid, founder of Girls with Scars Inc., chants with a group of around 150 Black women and girls who marched one mile from the Florida People’s Advocacy Center to the Capitol for Black Girls Day.
Diarra Smith, 17, a member of S.O.U.L. Sisters, discussed her experience being admitted under the Baker Act at age 16 during a press conference held for Black Girls Day in the fourth floor Capitol rotunda.
Jaylin Cole, a member of the NAACP Youth Council, speaks about the pressures that unstable housing places on students during a press conference held for Black Girls Day in the fourth floor Capitol Rotunda.Jasmen Rogers-Shaw, founder of Folding Chair Consulting, wraps up a press conference held for Black Girls Day in the fourth floor Capitol rotunda.
Chanice Lee, a 17-year-old community organizer from Fort Lauderdale, reads an “open letter to every single legislator who voted ‘yes’ on the parental consent bill that will require minors to receive permission from parents before having an abortion,” during a press conference held for Black Girls Day at the Capitol Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
Rep. Kamia Brown speaks during a press conference held for Black Girls Day at the Capitol.
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