Parents Protest DC After School Club That Empowers Black Girls [Video]

Schools across the country use affinity groups to provide a safe space for students from marginalized communities. But that’s exactly why conservatives often make them a target of their criticism – like a group of parents who are in their feelings about an after-school enrichment program geared towards empowering Black girls that they say is doing more harm than good.

Parents rights group Parents Defending Education (PDE) filed a complaint asking the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to investigate a District of Columbia Public School affinity group that focuses on “empowerment, creativity and community” for girls in first through fifth grade who identify as “Black, African, African-American, biracial, or part of the African diaspora and nonbinary students.”

PDE’s Vice President, Caroline Moore, told D.C.’s ABC affiliate WJLA that the club has “created an academic community in which students are purposely separated because of their race at a very young age.”

“It is …