Oct
20
Domestic Violence Week (A Literary Interpretation)
October 20, 2009 | Comments Off on Domestic Violence Week (A Literary Interpretation)
You’d have to get close to see the red-purple bruises on her dark-brown skin. The impressions of his thumb in the top of her collar bone, branching out to the thick twin lines that curved, almost, to the back of her neck. She covered them with make up and remembered how she couldn’t breathe. The […]
Oct
20
Under Pressure: Domestic Violence in the Black Community
October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
While other problems–high incarceration rates, the education attainment gap, housing instability, disproportionate HIV rates, and violent crime in black communities — are often the topic of discussion and activism, domestic violence is rarely discussed. It should be. Domestic violence is not only as much of a problem in the black community as it is across […]