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Ritual. Restoration. Reconciliation. Those were the words in our hearts when we began our pilgrimage to Ghana last month. We spent 10 days

We are writing this letter to stop the sexual violence intervention movement from being bamboozled by Playboy. This letter is as much to the

Today marks three years since the first Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission took place, and we are still fighting each day.

Patsey, an enslaved Black woman, endured severe abuse at the hands of slave master Edwin Epps and his family.

Joan Little was charged with first-degree murder in 1974 after stabbing a white prison guard who sexually assaulted her at Beaufort County j

Harriet Jacobs endured sexual assault and intense labor before escaping to freedom and writing the first-ever autobiography by a Black slave

*originally posted on BrassyBrown.com on October 11th, 2016 Transcending the Legacy of Violence and Abuse The founders of the “New World” created a global economy and the greater portion of today’s African Diaspora as we know it by understanding the premise that Black birth and Black bodies matter. Many Blacks born in America are the descendants of enslaved Africans who endured generations of violence and abuse. Since the abolishment of chattel slavery, Blacks have triumphed