Demands for Justice Are Failing Black Women and Girls
Category: BLACK VOICES
Many of the condemnations of police brutality have excluded the experiences of black women who have been brutalized in custody. The ongoing media blackout surrounding the case of 13 black women allegedly assaulted by a police officer in Oklahoma City may be the hardest evidence of the devaluation of African-American women's lives.
By Kali Nicole Gross, ContributorProfessor of African American Studies at Wesleyan University, 2014-12-11