Q&A: Andrea J. Ritchie on missing narratives around police violence, incarceration
Andrea Ritchie, a prominent Chicago lawyer who focuses on cases involving police misconduct, has been arguing for years that an important voice is missing in […]
Month: August 2017
Black And Blue: When Police Hurt Women Of Color
Michael Brown, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling – these are the names we associate with police violence. And they all happen to be men. Attorney Andrea […]
It’s all violence, and it’s all wrong
Recognizing that sexualized violence against women of colour is an unacknowledged crime Andrea J. Ritchie is a lawyer whose speciality is police misconduct. In her […]
Inside Her Story: Author Andrea Ritchie Talks Police Violence Against Black Women
BlackAmericaWeb.com When we think about police brutality, we may think of people like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Tamir Rice who lost their lives. Although […]
Book Takes On Violence Women of Color Face From Police
WBEZ When it comes to incidents of alleged police misconduct, men of color dominate the center of the national conversation. And that makes sense; black […]
#SayHerName Lives: Andrea J. Ritchie On Being “Invisible No More”
Police have fatally shot at least 620 people in 2017. According to Fatal Encounters, a database that tracks police shootings, at least 2,902 people have […]
How cops target transgender people: “They will often read gender nonconformity . . . to embody disorder”
Salon Civil rights lawyer Andrea Ritchie’s new book “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color” doesn’t just address the concerns of […]
Lesson from Detroit
As Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color wends its way into the world after living in my computer, countless boxes […]
Black Girlhood Matters: Experts Weigh In on the Adultification’ of Our Girls
Some things should go without saying — “children must be protected at all costs” seems like it would be one of them. However, as a […]