This morning I taped an interview with NPR’s the Takeaway. Robert Corbitt, Recy Taylor’s youngest brother, joined us from Abbeville, Alabama. He was incredible. He talked about how his family endured threats for decades and how his...
One of the questions I always get is: “why hasn’t this story been told in other histories of the civil rights movement?” I am not sure I know the “correct” answer. I think there are a couple of reasons why most major...
It was the winter of 1998. I was in the process of researching the 1959 gang-rape of Betty Jean Owens, a black college student at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida, when I kept coming across similar cases of white men attacking...
I realized that this was a story that had to be told when I figured out that black women had been enduring, resisting and testifying about interracial sexual violence for years and that these crucial and revealing moments had never made their way...
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