Oct
31
Domestic Violence-sad facts
October 31, 2009 | 2 Comments
African Americans, particularly African-American women, experience violence resulting in death at the hands of family members more often than any other racial group in the U.S. Although from 1976 to 2005, intimate-partner homicides among African Americans declined 69.2%, in 2005 African Americans disproportionately accounted for nearly a third of the intimate-partner homicides that occurred in […]
Oct
31
Domestic Violence: A local story
October 31, 2009 | Comments Off on Domestic Violence: A local story
MAY 8, 2009: JULIUS SCOTT, 74, of Dorchester was stabbed to death allegedly by his girlfriend, Verna Sewell, 64. Sewell allegedly confessed to stabbing Scott after he hit her with a brick. Sewell told police the two were having an argument and struggled over the knife, and “somehow it ended up in his chest.” In […]
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 […]