I had a great time speaking on Left of Black with Mark Anthony Deal of Duke University about how rape and resistance to rape sits at the center of the modern Civil Rights Movement. We talked about Recy Taylor, Gertrude Perkins and the gendered...
Recy Taylor was a 24-year-old mother when she was abducted at gunpoint and gang raped by a group of white men in Alabama in 1944. An activist named Rosa Parks was sent to investigate the attack. Taylor’s case, and a number of others like...
I had such a blast talking with Professor Neal about the book via skype. It felt like an Oprah moment! His new online show from Duke University is really incredible and worth watching the earlier (and future) episodes. Left of Black”...
I just published an essay on the Grio arguing that some of these old rape cases should be reopened so that women like Recy Taylor can finally get justice. In 2008, the Department of Justice received over $1 million to pursue racially-motivated...
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