- Works of Justice: Author and Advocate Andrea J. Ritchie on State Violence Against Women of Color
[Originally published on PEN America, by Giselle Robledo] Works of Justice is an online series that features content connected to the PEN […]
- “Prostitution-Related” Loitering Ordinance Promotes Racial Profiling in Chicago
[This post was originally posted on TruthOut]. In an ill-advised move last month, the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance that makes […]
- Dajerria Becton Survived a Violent Arrest at a Pool Party and Went Viral
[This post was originally posted on TeenVogue]. A 2015 video of her arrest sparked a major discussion about police violence against Black youth. […]
- Justice for Decynthia Clements: Demanding Safety, Not Police Bullets, for Black Women in Distress
[This post was originally posted on Truth-out] The following article could only be published thanks to support from our readers. To fund more stories like […]
- Book Ends: Andrea J. Ritchie on ‘Invisible No More’ and Ongoing Police Sexual Violence Epidemic
[This post was originally posted on Cassius] We spoke to the author about Chapter 5 of her eye-opening book for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. […]
- Survivors of Sexual Violence by Police Need More Than a Quick Fix
[This post was originally posted on Rewire News] Legislators can and must do more to prevent and support survivors of sexual violence by police officers. […]
- Black Women, Girls, and Trans Folks Get Locked Up and Shot Too
[This post was originally posted on Advocate] In her new book, Invisible No More, Andrea J. Ritchie dissects the forgotten stories of police violence […]
- Rethinking Police Violence Through the “Invisible” Experience of Women of Color
[This post was originally posted on Salon] Author Andrea Ritchie highlights violence and discrimination against black women, which often stays in the […]
- The Paradox of Black Women and Police Violence: A Q&A With Andrea Ritchie
[This post was originally posted on ReWire] In her new book Invisible No More, Ritchie points out that Black women have been on the forefront of […]
- Black Mothers Are Not Just Survivors of Police Violence, But Also Targets
[This post was originally posted on Cassius Life] What happens to the children? On Friday May 5, Takara Williams, a 24-year-old Black mother, was driving […]
- Two Years After the Uprising, Black Women’s Experiences of Policing in Baltimore Still Under the Radar
[This post was originally posted on Truth-Out.org] Two weeks before Freddie Gray was killed by Baltimore Police officers, Mya Hall took a wrong turn and […]
- How some cops use the badge to commit sex crimes
[This post was originally posted on Washington Post] Sexual misconduct persists during traffic stops, ridealongs and mentorship programs. She was driving […]
- Traffic Stop: Oscar-nominated doc shines a critical light on one woman’s experience of Driving While Black
[This post was originally posted on Medium] “It could have happened to me.” This is a phrase I often hear when talking about Invisible No More: Police […]
Why Young Girls Die Behind Bars16 year-old Gynnya McMillen died after just one night. n January 10, 2016, 16 year-old Gynnya McMillen, was living in a group home in Hardin County, […]
Trump agenda spells increased violence for immigrant womenPERSPECTIVE | The administration’s war on immigrants will find undocumented women squarely in its sights. A high school junior talking to other students […]
- A Rash of Police Sexual Violence – Why I’ll be Marching for Black Women on September 30th
According to a 2015 investigation by the Buffalo News, based on over 700 cases documented over a ten year period, on average a police officer is caught in […]
- 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 in […]
Black Mothers Are Not Just Survivors of Police Violence, But Also TargetsBy Andrea Ritchie THE WELL 05.11.17 On Friday May 5, Takara Williams, a 24-year-old Black mother, was driving her grandfather’s car to drop her two kids […]
Black Lives Over Broken Windows: Challenging the Policing Paradigm Rooted in Right-Wing “Folk Wisdom”When protesters developed a platform to end police violence in the wake of the 2014 police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, […]
Female Victims of the War on DrugsAs debate raged around health care and Russia-gate last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions quietly held a “national summit” of law enforcement […]
A Deadly Three Minutes: The Web of Police Violence that Killed Charleena LylesBias against Black mothers, perceptions of people in mental health crisis, and policing of poverty may have all played a role in the fatal shooting of the […]
Two Years after the Uprising, Black Women’s Experiences of Policing in Baltimore Still Under the RadarTwo weeks before Freddie Gray was killed by Baltimore Police officers, Mya Hall took a wrong turn and wound up dead. Hall, a Black transgender woman, was […]