Why We Need to Focus on How Black Women Are Harmed by Police Violence
Two years after Sandra Bland’s death, the specific impacts of police brutality on women of color remain understudied and underreported. With her forthcoming book, “Invisible […]
Month: August 2017
‘We, Too, Are Targets of Police Violence’
MAURA EWING JUN 1, 2017 High-profile incidents of alleged police misconduct have captured national attention in recent years, from the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown […]
Black Mothers Are Not Just Survivors of Police Violence, But Also Targets
By 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 […]
Black women speak out about their experiences with police violence
Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. Freddie Gray. Their names mark a shift in America’s racial consciousness. Their funerals were broadcast. Their families spoke out […]
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, the […]
Female Victims of the War on Drugs
As debate raged around health care and Russia-gate last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions quietly held a “national summit” of law enforcement representatives to discuss […]
A Deadly Three Minutes: The Web of Police Violence that Killed Charleena Lyles
Bias against Black mothers, perceptions of people in mental health crisis, and policing of poverty may have all played a role in the fatal shooting […]