A Clergyman Who Spoke the Words ’Domestic Violence’ Publicly

On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Stacey Riley is CEO of the Gulf Coast Center for NonViolence Inc. The nonprofit center is the largest program for victims of domestic violence in Mississippi: It runs a shelter in Biloxi, which houses up to 44, and another in Pascagoula with 16 beds.

Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellDecember 15, 2020Black women, black victims, sexual assault, Gulf Coast Center for NonViolence, domestic violence, Stacey Riley, covid-19, Violence against women act, shelters, Iman Abdul-Mu'Min, Biloxi Islamic Center, clergy, Mississippi

What Did Rosa Parks Do? More Than Sitting Down on a Bus and Being Arrested

On Dec. 1, 1955, a 43-year old bespectacled, decorous-looking, married seamstress wearing a neat suit was arrested on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks had violated racial segregation laws, which then governed all aspects of daily life in the Deep South, by refusing to give up her seat to a White man and move to the back of the bus with other Black riders.

Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellDecember 7, 2020Black women, black victims, Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, NAACP, NAACP youth council, back of bus, bus boycott, sexual assault, Recy Taylor, gang rape, Montgomery bus boycott, Jim Crow

Why Do Some Black Men Abuse Women?

Black women suffer from domestic violence out of proportion to their slice of the American population, a bit less than 7 percent.

Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellDecember 1, 2020domestic violence, Heavy, Black women, black victims, black women suffer from domestic violence more, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Black authors, memoirs, Kiese Laymon, Kevin Powell, victims of abuse, abusers

Payback for Pain and Loss: Reparations for Relatives of Lynching Victims?

In the U.S., reparations have had a rocky, uneven history. After World War II, in which American Indians served in great numbers and in key roles, Congress approved financial compensation of about $1.3 billion for 178 tribes. But much of it ended up in government-controlled trusts.