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Black Women's Blueprint's executive summary for The Sexual Abuse to Maternal Mortality Pipeline: Unifying Sexual Assault and Reprodu

We as a people must ask ourselves why we think it more logical to question a survivor than to believe it possible that anyone — yes, anyone

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

Margaret Garner, a Black enslaved woman, resolved to end the lives of her children so that they would not be returned to slavery.

Last week, a grieving aunt spoke through tears as she shared what happened to her 14-year-old niece. In an 18-minute Facebook video, the woman cried and wailed as she revealed that her niece — her husband’s little sister — had, for at least six years, been raped repeatedly by her own father, Pastor Matthew Gibson. The abuse took place in the bathroom of Gibson’s church, Brooklyn’s Progressive Baptist Church of Brownsville. Gibson, the son of Bishop Ben Gibson, has been arrest