In a blog entry at ColorLines, Akiba Solomon discusses violence, terror and discrimination experienced by the transgender community during a particularly violent year in Washington D.C. She interviews several and tells their poignant stories. This year was a bloody one for transgender women of color in Washington, D.C. In late July, Lashai McLean was shot to…

In a blog entry at ColorLines, Akiba Solomon discusses the far-reaching repercussions of a proposed amendment, Proposition 26, to the Mississippi State constitution that would declare any fertilized egg a person with legal rights. She says the measure is anti-choice and does not address criminal circumstances, female anatomy or biology. On Tuesday, November 8th, Mississippi…

In a blog entry at ColorLines, Akiba Solomon gives a nod to an FBI advisory board for its recent vote to update the agency’s 81-year-old “ridiculous” definition of rape. In the past, rape related only to women, she writes.  The current definition, which I’ve cited in this space multiple times and will continue to do…

ColorLines blogger Akiba Solomon writes that a radical national movement called Personhood Mississippi is using Dred Scott’s fight for freedom to convince voters to outlaw abortion. Now a cell of this national movement called Personhood Mississippi is using the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857 to convince Mississippi voters to outlaw abortion in the state…