Why the Black American's Fight for Civil Rights Still Isn't Over
On Monday a grand jury chose not to indict Officer Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, on a street in Ferguson, Missouri, in August....
View ArticleA Mother's Tears: Open Letter to Mothers of Color
When someone we love is robbed from us, it feels like the world should stop. Actually, it does. For a moment. And we look around us, jealous that others are still living, working and being alive.
View ArticleDemands for Justice Are Failing Black Women and Girls
Many of the condemnations of police brutality have excluded the experiences of black women who have been brutalized in custody. The ongoing media blackout surrounding the case of 13 black women...
View ArticleYour Home Is Your Prison
On January 27, domestic violence survivor Marissa Alexander will walk out of Florida's Duval County jail -- but she won't be free.
View ArticleMarissa Alexander, Woman Jailed In 'Warning Shot' Case, Released
Leaving the courthouse, Alexander cried as she thanked her supporters, sharing plans to continue her education in order to
View ArticleCriminalizing Victims: How the Punishment Economy Failed Marissa Alexander
For change to happen, we must focus our resources on mechanisms of support. There is another way forward that does not involve punishment or jail. It's time to stop criminalizing victims and provide...
View Article#BlackLivesMatter Should Contend With Community Violence, Too
Connecting community violence to the movement for accountability for police brutality would help call attention to the disproportionate violence experienced by all kinds of black women, and girls and...
View ArticleMarissa Alexander, The One Who Lived
The relative victory of Marissa is that she is the one who lived. And she lives precisely because she knew her life mattered. Even if no one else believed it to be so.
View ArticleSilence on Black Female Victims Weakens Fight Against Police Brutality
No one can deny black men's vulnerability in this society and the recent killings of Walter Scott and Eric Harris are painful reminders, but the fact is black women suffer the same injustices. Silence...
View ArticleAmerica Down the Rabbit Hole and Through the Looking Glass
Just days after returning to the U.S. a story broke an hour south of where I was living in Florida, involving a naked man eating the face off another in a shocking attack of cannibalism like The...
View ArticleHow Exactly Should Women Defend Themselves From Domestic Abuse?
What has to happen in order for us to be culturally sensitive to women's universal human rights to live without legally and normatively sanctioned violence against us?
View ArticleThe NRA Is Directly Behind A Bill Loosening Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' Law
Gawker's Adam Weinstein reported that S.B. 448, which would protect someone who fires warning shots or waves a weapon when
View ArticleStand Your Ground's Woman Problem: Laws Expanding Self-Defense Raise...
Of all the categories of victims who might justifiably agitate for more protection from the law, women facing down abusive partners in their own homes should be at the top of the list. And yet Stand...
View ArticleMarissa Alexander Looks Back On Her Time In Jail: I Was 'A Fish Out Of Water'
"To be quite frank, it's like, these were children. Trayvon and Jordan were children. So people's hearts tend to [feel for
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