New Studies Find That Positive Feelings About Blackness Improve Academic Performance for Black Girls

Believing that “black is beautiful,” an important mantra of self-acceptance and self-love, could pay major dividends in school, a new study finds. An article in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education focuses on a new study from Sheretta Butler-Barnes, a professor at Washington University in St. 路易斯, which finds that young black women with “strong racial identity” are more likely to be academically engaged, curious and persistent…阅读更多