Stephen Henderson and I spoke at WDET on Martin Luther King Jr. Day about the Civil Rights Movement and its roots in black women’s demand for bodily integrity. We talked about Recy Taylor, Rosa Parks, and how the entire civil rights...
I met Mrs. Recy Taylor at her brother, Robert Corbitt’s, tidy ranch home in Abbeville, Alabama the same day that millions of Americans gathered in Washington D.C. to witness the inauguration of President Barack Obama. I was in Abbeville to...
Rosa Parks wrote an essay about how she escaped from a man who tried to sexually assault her. Is it just a story, as some would have us think? Or is it a true testimony of a personal experience? I spoke with NPR’s “The...
Recy Taylor’s bold testimony in defense of her bodily integrity in 1944 will reach a new audience because of Nancy Buirski’s new documentary film, The Rape of Recy Taylor. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival. It will have...
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