From Aperture: An estimated twenty thousand children were born of rapes that occurred during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Fifteen years later, the mothers of these children still face enormous challenges, among them, being stigmatized within their communities for bearing a child fathered by a Hutu militiaman. Over the past three years, photographer Jonathan Torgovnik has Read More
The perpetually wrong Keith Josef Adkins: I said this last week and I’ll say it again: women and others should be trying to school other women about domestic abuse. We spend way too much time hanging men in trees; but where’s the urgent advocacy to educate women? You know, to point out their patterns in Read More
Here is a link to a PDF of Berry’s 2005 article.
This depressing graph comes from a Northeastern University report released today, which as the Wall Street Journal explains, shows a marked increase in the number of African-American teens who were the victims of violent crime: Murders of African-American teenagers have risen 39% since 2000 and 2001, according to a report due out Monday. Homicides in Read More
The Pulitzer winners were announced earlier this week (if you haven’t already, you should read the WashPost‘s excellent, deeply disturbing series on Dick Cheney’s tenure as vice president, which won for National reporting), which gives us a perfectly good news peg from which to throw to another winner of journalism’s highest honor. Theodore Landsmark, a Read More
It’s fascinating how many black sports columnists (with varying degrees of empathy) have used their column-inches in the week since Sean Taylor’s death to inveigh against the violence that has become endemic to the lives of so many black men. While it’s difficult to take issue with their indignation, don’t these sprawling critiques miss the Read More
