A 16-year old woman of color received what female slaves may have if they refused their master's sexual advances: death sentences at worst, and more tortured lives at best.
Category: Justice
Remembering Trayvon Martin…
February 5, 2018, would have been Trayvon Martin's 23rd birthday.
When We Are Witnesses…for Kitty Genovese
No matter what I have learned from her brother Bill Genovese's heart-wrenching push for the truth, I still can not extinguish the feeling of seeing myself in Kitty Genovese: young, happy, independent, innocent, moving toward the future, and fated to be a woman living alone in American big cities.
“Remember Me To Miss Louisa”: Q & A with author and historian Sharony Green
"Critical study of womanhood, in all its complexities, is needed for today’s women who are still living through so many oppressions. Not that much has happened that we get to escape societal agreements about our sanity, our worth, our ability to contribute, our need for rest and to be protected and to protect and so on." Dr. Sharony Green, on her work and book "Remember Me to Miss Louisa: Hidden Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America"
10 Black Women Who Lost Their Lives to Violence
The women I want the world to start remembering forever are pictured here. Please click on their photos for more information about their lives and stories, as well as ongoing activism in their memories for this remainder of Black History Month. #SayHerName
I analyze the losses of three young people on TV One Channel tonight.
I am one of few writers who wrote at length about perpetrator Vanessa Coleman's tragic turn. The world lost two victims' lives here on Earth, however whatever better life Ms. Coleman would have given the world died, too.
Little Rock Nine, Four Little Girls, and One Confederate Flag: A Retrospective
One way to move this tragedy and the deceased in it past public ephemera and into history is to forever connect the loss of their lives to a national symbolic act against domestic terrorism: the legally-mandated abolition of our Confederate flag, and civil prosecution of anyone who waves it.
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