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'Justice Will Never be Justice for Me, Because My Child Is Gone': Korryn Gaines' Mother Speaks Out on the Anniversary of Her Daughter's Killing
“If she was a white girl, I think things would have been different. They would have handled her differently, they would have probably not taken her out to Burger King…But I think she would have walked out. I think she would’ve walked out and she would still be here.” — Rhanda Dormeus, mother of Korryn…
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Fallen but Not Forgotten: Unpacking the Erasure of Black Women in Conversations About Police Violence
“The frame around police violence is largely a male-male frame. It is a frame that that that devolves from lynching. It’s the idea of Black masculinity being constrained, being disciplined, being snuffed out if necessary. And that’s real. There is a realness to that. But that is not the exclusive way in which racial violence…
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WNBA Players Will Wear Names of Women Killed at the Hands of Police. NBA Players Will Wear…'Listen'?
The NBA could learn a thing or two from its “little sister,” the WNBA. After both leagues announced their intentions to resume their seasons, one of the highest priorities for players has been the opportunity to continue to address police brutality and racial injustice. It’s become so much of a sticking point that it damn…
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‘Many Are Concerned That Justice is Not Blind’: Gov. Andy Beshear Calls for Review of Breonna Taylor’s Case
There is a reason why activists push for more media attention for cases where unarmed black people are killed by police and vigilantes: public scrutiny gets things done. Two months after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by Louisville police officers who were executing a search warrant at the wrong house, her tragic death is finally…
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As Media Focuses on Black Lives, Activists Call Attention to Nina Pop, the 5th Trans Woman of Color to Be Killed in the Last Month
As tributes poured in last weekend for Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old unarmed black man whose Feb. 23 killing made international headlines when cellphone footage of his death was released last week, racial and trans justice advocates sought space to lift up the name of Nina Pop, a 28-year-old trans woman who was found stabbed to…
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As Community Mourns the Death of Trans Woman Yahira Nesby, Police Release Footage of Suspect
NYPD have released surveillance video of a man believed to be linked to the killing of Yahira Nesby, a black trans woman who was found fatally shot in her apartment earlier this month. The footage, shared by WPIX 11, shows a black man wearing all-black clothing with gray-ish sneakers walking down a street. Nesby, described…
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18-Year-Old Chrystul Kizer Faces Life in Prison for Killing an Accused Trafficker Who Allegedly Abused Her and Other Black Girls
For months, Wisconsin police were aware that 34-year-old Randy Volar had hundreds of child porn videos, some of them showing girls who seemed as young as 12. They knew he had his own “home videos” showing him sexually abusing underage black girls—at least 20 recordings featuring about a dozen different girls, according to case files.…