‘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 […]
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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 […]
Two Years after the Uprising, Black Women’s Experiences of Policing in Baltimore Still Under the Radar
Two 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 […]
Chris Hayes: Do Police Officers Have The Legal Right To Make You Put Out A Cigarette?
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and Andrea Ritchie, co-author of the Say Her Name Report discuss the legal details of the Sandra Bland case, the 28-year old […]