Some Domestic Violence Takes Place Behind Two Sets of Closed Doors: At Home, In the Bedroom, In Secrecy

Since the mass shooting in Atlanta last week that killed six women of Asian descent, Asian Americans, especially women, are sick at heart, angry -- and afraid.

Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellMarch 23, 2021domestic violence, abuse, women killed, Asian Americans, mass shooting, Atlanta, attacks on Asian Americans, Tanya Selvaratnam, Cathy Park Hong, immigrants, sexual assault, Eric Sneiderman, Kiese Laymon

Will the Violence Against Women Act Go On Saving Lives?

The Violence Against Women Act, first passed in 1994, makes possible local advocates’ ability to prevent and respond to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking.

Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellMarch 2, 2021Violence against women act, domestic abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, VAWA, The House, Ann McLane Kuster, Congress, Lizzie Fletcher, abuse, President Biden, Oliphant Decision, Senate, MCconnell

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