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The Deadening of Blackness in the Age of Obama
After George W. Bush ran the country into the ground, we all clearly and desperately wanted change. Black voters, especially black women, overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama for president. Certainly, as a self-identified African American, his candidacy was historic, but he won the black vote because he professed an agenda that we believed would be good for…
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Dee Barnes, Dr. Dre and Why We Need to Keep Saying Women’s Names
Dee Barnes’ courageous essay in Gawker unearthed her historical connection to the rappers in N.W.A and laid bare the violent betrayal she and other women suffered at the hands of Dr. Dre, a former member of N.W.A and executive producer of the current blockbuster Straight Outta Compton. Said film makes no mention of the events Barnes…
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We Must Make Police Brutality Against Black Women an Issue in 2016
Criminal-justice reform must be an election issue for black women in 2016. More than any other group of women in the country, black women are killed, raped and victimized by intimate-partner and community violence. While they are the least protected, as the current McKinney, Texas, episode shows, black women and girls are also beaten, racially profiled and assaulted by police.…
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Missing Black Women Are Usually Ignored Until They’re Proved Worthy
As relieved as many are that a kidnapped Philadelphia woman was found alive, the reality is that missing black women are often deemed unworthy of coverage by the media and criminalized by police, their humanity all but ignored. Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, 22, was violently abducted off West Coulter Street in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. We don’t…
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