What Aleshea Harris’s Is God Is makes plain about Black femicide, the Black church, and a film canon that has spent decades asking Black women to read their own endurance as holiness.
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.
April is supposed to be about child abuse prevention, protecting the most vulnerable, and catching harm before it reaches a child’s body.
Cerina Fairfax should be the focus in all of these discussions, not the mental health of the man who took her life while her children were home.