About Josie Pickens
Josie Pickens is an educator, writer, cultural critic, and abolitionist strategist and organizer. She is the director of upEND Movement, a national movement dedicated to abolishing the family policing system.
What's happening to Black women across the country shows us a reality where "protection" is usually just a promise on a piece of paper.
As Black women, we're taught so early that our strength is a container meant to hold everything others refuse to carry.
Silvia Lopez-Navarro, a white woman with a hispanic last name, filed a federal class-action lawsuit because she was not allowed into a program that supports Black mothers and their babies.
James Broadnax is set to be executed in a case in which rap lyrics he wrote as a teenager were used against him as evidence in a murder trial.