How Do Mothers of Slain, Unarmed Black Daughters Grieve?
Category: BLACK VOICES
The pain of Dominika Stanley over the senseless loss of her baby girl, Aiyana, is unimaginable. Hard to suffer, too, is the crushing weight of isolation and alienation as the world responds to tragedies like that of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown Jr., and Eric Garner to the exclusion of the loss of black women's and girls' lives.
By Kali Nicole Gross, ContributorProfessor of African American Studies at Wesleyan University, 2014-12-30