Contending that female victims are “so often omitted from the narratives of violence” in the African-American community, the Guardian‘s Jamila Aisha Brown suggests that if Trayvon Martin had been a young black woman, her name would be unknown. What if Trayvon Martin had been a black woman? CNN host Piers Morgan posed this hypothetical question to Marc Lamont Hill on Tuesday night:…

In a piece for Ebony, Jamila Aisha Brown explores how anti-African sentiment and legislation have increased in Israel’s major cities. She also draws comparisons to American attitudes and policies. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, standing in accord with the anti-African sentiments of his fellow right wing constituents, publicly denounced undocumented migrants as “infiltrators” calling for…

Jamila Aisha Brown writes in a piece for Ebony that there’s still a lot of work to be done to bring equality to women’s athletics. One needs look no further than the box office or the bookshelf to see how what it means to “act like a lady” remains a perennial topic for societal discourse…

Ebony‘s Jamila Aisha Brown says that the recent drama following President Obama’s Colombia trip provides a look at the far-too-common practice of traveling for sex. Much like the how the U.S.’s appetite for narcotics fuels the War on Drugs another illicit multi-billion dollar market booms — sex. Sex tourism in Latin American and the Caribbean…