Ta-Nehisi Coates’ latest book, Between This World and Me, confronts the issue of what it means to be Black in America and navigating through life in a country that has never fully accepted the true humanity of its Black citizens. In the book, a missive to his teenage son, Coates talks about what it meant to be a young Black man in Baltimore seeing other young men whose only way to claim any sense of power in a country where merely having Black skin and kinky hair is seen as “other” or less than, was through the bravado gained in the streets. While his son is growing up in a much different world, it is a world that is confronted by the same reality: he is Black in America and this country, even with a Black President, has struggled to respect
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Black women are murdered by men at a rate more than two and a half times higher than White women and experience intimate partner violence at a rate 35 percent higher than that of White women. Even more staggering is that 40 percent of Black women report coercive sexual contact by age 18 and the number is believed to be higher. According to a U.S. Department of Justice report, 80 percent of college students who are raped never report the crime and Black victims report at lower rates than White victims. While many people are familiar with the name Sandra Bland, they are less familiar with the four other women who died in police custody in the same month. Black females are more likely to be imprisoned than women of all races, with 1 in 18 Black women likely to serve …show more content…
You have to protect your body from the people who want to use it to inflict pain and those who want to use it for personal pleasure.
This is a man’s world and as Black women, we must resist the thrusting between his world and us.
Janaye Ingram is the National Executive Director of National Action Network (NAN) and oversees NAN’s action agenda and legislative advocacy work under Founder and President, Rev. Al Sharpton. In this role, Ingram focuses on issues such as education, criminal justice, housing, technology, economic development and healthcare, among
Black women are murdered by men at a rate more than two and a half times higher than White women and experience intimate partner violence at a rate 35 percent higher than that of White women. Even more staggering is that 40 percent of Black women report coercive sexual contact by age 18 and the number is believed to be higher. According to a U.S. Department of Justice report, 80 percent of college students who are raped never report the crime and Black victims report at lower rates than White victims. While many people are familiar with the name Sandra Bland, they are less familiar with the four other women who died in police custody in the same month. Black females are more likely to be imprisoned than women of all races, with 1 in 18 Black women likely to serve …show more content…
You have to protect your body from the people who want to use it to inflict pain and those who want to use it for personal pleasure.
This is a man’s world and as Black women, we must resist the thrusting between his world and us.
Janaye Ingram is the National Executive Director of National Action Network (NAN) and oversees NAN’s action agenda and legislative advocacy work under Founder and President, Rev. Al Sharpton. In this role, Ingram focuses on issues such as education, criminal justice, housing, technology, economic development and healthcare, among