Black Women Still in Defense of Ourselves
Below is an article from our Affirmative Action Media Monitoring Project. These articles represent a wide variety of views. These views do not necessarily represent the views of AAPF but instead are intended to provide you with an overview of the current affirmative action debate. March 14, 2011 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – Malaysia and [...]
Susan Burton and Kimberle Crenshaw talk about the issues around reentry for women of color on GRITtv. Vote for Susan as a CNN Hero at http://heroes.cnn.com/vote.aspx Hope is in short supply these days, particularly for those in America’s packed prison system. California incarcerates more women than any other state, and when those women get out [...]
1998 – 2000 AAPF Criminal Justice Series February 1998 Salon Workshops examine the growth of Prison Industrial Complex Dynamics of poor Black women, economy & domestic violence in limelight November 1999 Public discussions on Kemba Smith case in the crossfire of Domestic Violence & U.S. Drug Policy Drug policies for women of Color & consequences [...]
Kimberle Crenshaw on GRITtv “Post-Racial” Politics and History September 30, 2010 We hear a lot about “post-racial” politics these days–the election of Barack Obama supposedly has led us into a post-racial age, but have we really seen anything change? Not much, notes Kimberle Crenshaw, co-founder of the African-American Policy Forum, and it’s not really new [...]
