In her new memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist, Patrisse Khan-Cullors gives readers an intimately personal look at her life, from her childhood in a low-income Los Angeles neighborhood where police violence was an everyday reality, to her current efforts as an organizer, family member, mother, and co-creator of Black Lives Matter.
To fully relieve Black women of their burdens in the United States would require the dismantling of the racist, sexist, and capitalistic structures that plague the country—a formidable challenge, to say the least. Yet, we can chip away at those structures through fighting for these solutions.
The Black women Rewire.News spoke to who were bailed out by the National Bail Out Coalition said that having resources and love gave them the hope and strength to more effectively defend themselves and pursue justice for others in their positions.
In her new book Invisible No More, Ritchie points out that Black women have been on the forefront of organizing against police and state violence, particularly against Black men. So why is it so hard to recognize that they and other women of color are targets of such brutality?
This wave of legislation has been called dangerous by racial justice advocates who say these laws aim to attack rather than protect communities that police serve.
Bias against Black mothers, perceptions of people in mental health crisis, and policing of poverty may have all played a role in the fatal shooting of the 30-year-old pregnant Seattle woman.
Following on the heels of a successful campaign to bail out more than 100 Black women last month, about 25 organizations around the country are now seeking to bail out Black fathers and LGBTQ and gender nonconforming people.
Police violence and interaction could be seen as particularly extreme forms of maternal stress. If one lives in a community that is frequently policed, the accumulative effects of these interactions can have health consequences more insidious than those caused by actual physical violence.
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