DALLAS — Officials say a rapist appears to be targeting members of the predominantly black Delta Sigma Theta sorority in suburban Dallas. Also read: When I Studied Abroad: Morocco Also read: Best Places to Travel Alone: Australia Also read: Travel Deal of the Week: San Juan, Puerto Rico In four cases over 11 months, women, […]
A group of African American anti-violence advocates, activists, scholars, organizational and spiritual leaders have written an open letter to the anti-rape and violence against women organization, “SlutWalk.” “SlutWalk” was founded to combat people that blame women that were victims of sexual assault. Large Crowds Protest Rape Charge Acquittal Of NYC Police Officers Egyptian Army Gave […]
LOUISVILLE, KY- A man faces multiple charges after forcing another man to perform sexual favors on him at gunpoint. According to police reports, Anton L. Malone, 19, forced the victim to perform oral sex on him twice at gunpoint before opening fire on him. Read more at theGrio.com RELATED: Optometrist Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Minor […]
NEW YORK — After the rape case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn fell apart, many people have been pointing figures at the accuser, Nafissatou Diallo. Still there are many political and social reasons the case was dropped, including the drastically different backgrounds of the accuser and the accused. The Daily Beast Reports: And Diallo? Her biography is, […]
ZIMBABWE — Police in Zimbabwe are searching for a group of women who are drugging men and raping them at gunpoint. The Daily Nation reports: “We appeal to members of the public to pass any information to the police regarding three women who have gone on a spree of kidnapping and indecently assaulting young men […]
NEW YORK — Long before Rosa Parks was hailed as the “mother of the civil rights movement,” she wrote a detailed and harrowing account of nearly being raped by a white neighbor who employed her as a housekeeper in 1931. The six-page essay, written in her own hand many years after the incident, is among […]
NEW YORK — The hotel maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sex assault has been wrongfully portrayed as a money-grubbing opportunist in accounts of her recorded remarks to an incarcerated friend, her lawyer said Wednesday after they reviewed the tapes during a nearly eight-hour meeting with prosecutors. The tapes also established that housekeeper Nafissatou Diallo recounted […]
NORTH CAROLINA — The former pastor of the North Carolina church New Life Christian Center, Keith Devon Pitts, has been convicted of nine counts of sexual abuse with the same girl. WCNC News reports that “his nine counts include sex offense of a child and taking indecent liberties with a child.” Read More At YourBlackWorld.com […]
LIBERTY, Texas — More than a dozen men accused of taking part in a series of sexual assaults on an 11-year-old girl are expected in court Wednesday in a case that has divided and horrified their southeast Texas town. The 14 men, who along with five juvenile boys are facing charges, are scheduled to be […]
NEW YORK — An assistant girls basketball coach at Murry Bergtraum high school has been charged with second-degree rape for allegedly having sex with two girls and inappropriately touching two others. Kerbert Dixon, 47, a Queens court officer, is accused of having sex with a 22-year-old since she was 14 and an 18-year-old since she […]
KINSHASA, Congo — An international medical aid group says more than 100 people were raped in a recent attack in Congo’s volatile east. Megan Hunter of Medicins Sans Frontieres said Thursday that a team in Fizi territory in South Kivu province found more than 100 victims of rapes that occurred between June 10 and 12. […]
By Regina Bradley I’ve been keeping up with the horrific gang rape that took place in Cleveland, Texas. I’m unsure which sickens me more – the excuses made for grown men about why the rape took place, who to blame, or how the victim’s childhood is overlooked and dismissed because she “looked like” she wanted […]
