For black girls and young women of color, it can seem like the deck is perennially stacked against them. A recent study by Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality quantified what many of us have intimately experienced: that adults view black girls under 14 as less innocent and more adult than white children of the same age. The implications of this innocence erasure are seen in other data: In school, black girls are punished more harshly while youth of color are more likely to be shuttled into the harsh juvenile detention system.