Abuse

Updated 8/3/25 So the latest update is that Jennifer Melle has been suspended. Extremely disappointing. She was providing care to a male prisoner.  Nurse Melle is a veteran professional who …

Let’s tell the truth:Adults have power. Children don’t. Even the most vulnerable adult usually has more access to voice, resources, legal systems, and public platforms than a child does. So …

You can do everything right and still meet people whose only plan for you is deception, manipulation, and harm. I loved watching how Jenifer Lewis handled this betrayal because of …

The True Story Behind the Surgical Legacy Built on Black Women’s Pain Between 1845 and 1849, in Montgomery, Alabama, three young enslaved Black women—Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey—were subjected to brutal, …

Yes, it is tragically true. From the late 1960s through the 1990s, West Germany—specifically the government in West Berlin—knowingly placed vulnerable children, particularly boys, into the care of known pedophiles. …

Stop making abuse a softer crime just because the beat is familiar. Let me just get this sentence out so I can be done:   Must we use every Black …

And the damage may last for lifetimes. We live in a world where the predator’s pain often gets more airtime than the Survivor’s truth. He had a rough childhood.He didn’t …

You must choose a side. There are things we don’t say often enough—because saying them out loud means we can’t unhear them. Here’s one of them: Most men who sexually …

If you’re a Survivor, you’ve probably heard it all before: “You’re just being paranoid.”“You’re overreacting.”“You need more therapy.”“You’re damaged goods.”“You see abuse everywhere.”“You need to let that go already.” And …