An excerpt of “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color,” about the violent ways police have frequently treated black women with mental illness.
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Mental Illness is Not a Capital Crime
An excerpt from Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, by Andrea J. Richie, just out from Beacon Press. In this chapter, subtitled, “On the disproportional impact of police violence on women of color,” Richie writes about the impact law enforcement’s common misconceptions about women of color can have on […]
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How ‘Jane Crow’ Is Ravaging Families of Color
Authorities in New York City are using foster care as punishment against poor, non-white families.
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The Colorblind Whitewashers of American History
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw offers a sharp rebuke to those who would declare our country “post-racial.”
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Women of Color Are Blazing New Paths on Old Trails
Amanda Machado adds her voice to the growing chorus of women of color claiming their place in the rugged outdoors.
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The Strange Alienation of Being a Latina Who Loves Hiking
A personal essay about loving hiking as a Latinx — in both Ecuador, where author Amanda Machado’s family members see it as un-classy and unladylike, and the United States, where hiking has largely been the domain of upper-class whites.
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Nina Simone’s Three Years of Freedom
At Guernica, Katherina Grace Thomas turns a lens on the years Nina Simone spent in Liberia in the mid-1970s.
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Ijeoma Oluo Has the Last Word on Rachel Dolezal
Oluo’s interview is a master class in confrontation, in which the hard questions are asked and the answers are pushed.
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Coretta Scott King Fuelled the Civil Rights Movement with ‘Courage, Dignity, and Poise’
How Coretta Scott King’s “grace, diginity, and poise” in the face of horrific tragedy fuelled the Civil Rights Movement.
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Queer and Black and Hiking the Appalachian Trail: Rahawa Haile on Going it Alone
In hiking the Appalachian Trail solo as a queer black woman, Rahawa Haile wants “to be a role model to black women who are interested in the outdoors, including myself.”