The invisible woman: What’s missing from media, conversations on partner/domestic violence? #Rice #NFL #FOX #CNN #Janay

I saw this video this morning and started to get a little excited. I thought, someone is finally going to make the connections. They are going to expose the plethora of reasons that the media’s responses, the NFL’s, and many Americans’ responses to the Ray-Janay Rice video have been inadequate at best. But, well, watch

Dead Assets: Endangered Cemeteries, Sacred Spaces of African America

By Andrea Roberts* I spoke yesterday with Jeremy Nelloms, descendant of Nancy Bradshaw. Nancy Bradshaw was a former slave who attained an impressive 300 acres of land after emancipation located in today’s northeast Houston, Texas.  The land is located a few blocks off I-10 East. Her family still owns the land, and the historic African