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Young D.C. Actress Takes on Teen Dating in Film Project
With youths especially vulnerable to online predators, Maya Jai Pinson, a 16-year-old actress and native Washingtonian, has penned and produced…
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Lawmakers Address Spate of Missing Girls of Color
Lawmakers and activists made a call to action to reduce the number of missing women and children of color at…
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AFRICA NOW: Organization Busts Up Haitian Sex-Trafficking Ring
After visiting Haiti while working for the U.S. government, former CIA analyst Tim Ballard recalls witnessing a father in Port-au-Prince…
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Missing Children Posts Ring Alarms
A seeming spike in missing-children alerts posted on the Metropolitan Police Department's social media accounts has sparked concerns of a…
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Sex Trafficking: Lifelong Struggle of Exploited Children
(BBC) – In the US, poverty, deprivation and exploitation draw thousands of its own children down into a dark underworld…
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Capitol Hill Buzz: Who Has Time to Read These Bills We Pass?
CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress can get so busy that senators and their staffs don’t always have…
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Child Watch: Good News for Children When Congress Works Together
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist While we rarely hear good news these days about Congress, I have some to…
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168 Children Rescued from Sex Trafficking, FBI Says
(Detroit Free-Press) – Law enforcement officials rescued 168 child victims of commercial sex trafficking in a nationwide sweep during the…
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168 Kids Rescued, 281 Pimps Nabbed in Sex-Trafficking Crackdown
(CBS News)—Nearly 170 victims of child sex trafficking, many of whom had never been reported missing, were rescued in the…
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Beaten, Branded & Abused: #SaveOurGirlsUSA
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call Editor’s note: This is part one of a three-part…
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