Category: Black Women

Stop Calling It “Race Baiting”: Black Maternal Death Is a Life-or-Death Reality (podcast episode)
Black women speaking about maternal death are not “race baitin [...]

On WESurviveAbuse Book Shelf: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance- A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (10 min audio)
Title: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, [...]

Truth Shouldn’t Require a Protest: Journalism, Institutions, and the 12 Events That Changed History
Truth telling is not a luxury.
It is not a reward.
It is the baselin [...]

Survivor Affirmations: Black History Month…. Lets Go!
Updated from January 28, 2024Black History Month is not a highligh [...]

Black History Month Means Honoring the Humanity of the Women Who Loved Us Here (Musical Playlist Included)
updated from 2/2/ 2025 Without Black women, the miracl [...]

This Is Not Confusion. It Is Memory: Black Women, Language, and the Right to Self-Definition.
This history is not symbolic. It is specific, embodied, and carried fo [...]

Sally Hemings: The Founding Father and the Silence He Bought.
Like every abused woman and child Black Americans reside in a county t [...]

Valerie Castile Says the State’s New School-Meals Law Is An Investment in Minnesota’s kids—and a Tribute to Her Son, Philando
We were previously warned. Rather than shutting down Black people when [...]

Why Some Survivors Are Alarmed by the Push to Redefine Womanhood as An Aesthetic
It is harder to ignore now.
Some people noticed it earlier but now it [...]

Your Body Knows the Truth: Letting Survivors Define Abuse and Violation
You are seen. You are heard.
Survivors are speaking in this moment.An [...]