15 youth leaders & organizations awarded an opportunity to inform policy solutions that better serve the mental health of BIPOC youth

“A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and Life Unbound” by Donna Hylton is our May selection for the NBWJI Book Club. In...

We are angry and anguished at learning that police in Columbus, OH, killed Ma’Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old Black girl. Ma’Khia called the...

With today's verdict in the case of Derek Chauvin, we are thinking about George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the many untold number of...

NBWJI released the following statement responding to the report that the Rochester PD pepper-sprayed a Black mother with her child.

We recently put together a reading list of books by Black women that highlight the real impact of incarceration on Black women and girls....

During the past 30 years, the incarceration rate of women has skyrocketed. And Black women are incarcerated at nearly twice the rate of...

The National Black Women’s Justice Institute released the following statement from Executive Director Dr. Sydney McKinney responding to...