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.
Carry It On: A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Assata Shakur will take place on Saturday, May 30 at The Riverside Church in New York City.
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.
Erica Jimenez, 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.