My point was that violence against women who are black happens at a particularly high rate.

I am so fed up with this. We need an open and honest and intentional conversation about violence against black women.

THANK YOU FOR REPORTING THIS!

I live a few blocks from there. Some will make this out to be a Chicago gun violence issue (which it may be), but Bronzeville is a nice, safe, black area I’m proud to call home.

So if you are poor, white, and an lgbt woman you can accept literally 10's of thousands in payments bc poverty for you must constitutes a life event? Ok, so we’re taking into considerations humanity or something now? Cool. I’m with that.

Condolezza Rice: a person with a background of using her high intellectual pedigree to justify a war on a developing country when the world said ‘NO!’, only to find out that the war was unjustified all along—there were no weapons of mass destruction. A woman who used ‘American Exceptionalism’ as a backdrop while she…

The headline “Like Many Black Women, Kim Porter Was Under a Doctor’s Care and Still Died. That’s Terrifying” and the subsequent dearth of any evidence that her tragic death was a result of a lack of quality medical care is what I found unsubstantiated.

Maybe I’m out of the loop, but there’s no details explaining how we can link this to medical negligence? Creating a belief that Ms. Porter went a doc and got negligent care because she’s black doesn’t seem accurate; I have read that she was feeling ill the night before passing and was discovered at home deceased, not…