In a gym in northern Algeria's Kabylia, 15-year-old Cerine Kessal was driving her fists into a punching bag. Like Kessal, 14-year-old Hayat Berouali, who picked up boxing less than a month ago, dreams ...

The seventh-grader at Lazear Charter Academy in Oakland spends her time training after school at the East Oakland Boxing ...

It also set a standard for other girls to follow her path. "It's hard to find people around here who do boxing, especially girls. But I just want to. If I get to know somebody, I want to encourage ...