Silence on Black Female Victims Weakens Fight Against Police Brutality
Category: BLACK VOICES
No one can deny black men's vulnerability in this society and the recent killings of Walter Scott and Eric Harris are painful reminders, but the fact is black women suffer the same injustices. Silence in mainstream and black America is the only reason why it isn't widely acknowledged.
By Kali Nicole Gross, ContributorProfessor of African American Studies at Wesleyan University, 2015-04-19