Black Girls

Lawsuit: White Boys ‘Dragged’ Black Girl By Rope Around Her Neck

June 20, 2016 Olivia Messer, www.thedailybeast.com Resist! Black Girls, Lawsuit

By Olivia Messer for The Daily Beast - The family of a black sixth grader in Texas is suing her school after white students allegedly wrapped a rope around her neck and pulled her to the ground. The $3-million lawsuit accuses Live Oak Classical School in Waco of negligence, gross negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The lead attorney on the case is Levi McCathern, who represents the Dallas Cowboys.

Black Lives Matter Activists March For Safety Of Women

June 1, 2016 Alex Garland, www.thedignityvirus.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Girls, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black Women, Safety

By Alex Garland for The Dignity Virus - Weeks after a lawsuit was filed against Jared Williams, a Tacoma police officer, by 17 year old Monique Tillman, approximately 100 activists marched in protest of police violence. The “Black Girls Matter” rally and march was was attended by a spectrum of races and cultures. Security was provided by armed and unarmed members of the New Black Panthers. Family members of Jacqueline Salyers, a Puyallup Tribal member who was shot and killed by Tacoma Police in January were also in attendance

Why Are Black Girls And Women Dying In Police Custody?

February 9, 2016 Tasasha Henderson, www.truth-out.org Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Girls, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black Women, police brutality

By Tasasha Henderson for Truthout - Gynna McMillen was brought into the Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, on January 10, 2016, after police were called to her mother's house about a "domestic incident." The next morning she was found unresponsive in a cell. What happened to her? Why is she dead after less than 24 hours in the detention facility? These are questions being asked by Gynna's family and others concerned about the deaths of Black people in police custody.

Black Girls And The Police State Menace

November 10, 2015 Sikivu Hutchinson, www.thefeministwire.com Educate! Black Girls, Police State

By Sikivu Hutchinson for The Feminist Wire - Whenever there’s a black girl on a school campus wielding a dangerous weapon like a cell phone, white macho can always be counted on to come to civilization’s rescue with the full force of fascist violence. These days, unarmed black children rank higher than mass murderers with semi-automatic weapons as public enemy number one on American school campuses. Shortly after the videotaped assault of a cell phone wielding sixteen year-old Spring Valley High School student in Richland, South Carolina by a white male school resource officer went viral, a New York Times letter writer naively asked—“Why are children not treated like children when they do silly things?”

Rage Is Our Rightful Response to Anti-Black Racism

June 9, 2015 Kirsten West Savali, www.theroot.com Resist! Black Girls, Black Women, police brutality, Racial Justice, Texas

By Kirsten West Savali in The Root - Yes, it was painful to watch the boys restrained in handcuffs. One boy even appeared to be bleeding from his mouth, though whatever happened to cause that injury happened off camera. Still, it is the young girl, forced by her hair to the ground as she screamed for her mother, that chilled me the most. It’s the pleasure the white officer seemed to take from exerting power over her black body—as adult men, both black and white, stood by and did nothing—that enraged me. It is the thought of Daniel Holtzclaw, the former Oklahoma City police officer accused of sexually assaulting eight black women while on duty—and what the officer in this case possibly does to young black women when the cameras aren’t rolling—that made me sick to my stomach.

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