Black History Month
This post is inspired byΒ βGiants Among Men and Women On Whose Shoulders We Standβ from Ujima, The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community.Β
We celebrate the work the following people have done for intimate partner abuse in the Black community and encourage you to read more about their achievements.
Shelia Hankins
Activist and cofounder of the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community.
Ulester Douglas
Psychotherapist, consultant, keynote speaker, and social justice advocate.
KimberlΓ© Crenshaw
American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.
Dr. Robert Hampton
Author of Violence in the Black Family & cofounder of the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community.
Dr. Beth Ritchie
Researcher and author of Compelled to Crime: the Gender Entrapment of Black Battered Women and more titles.
Devine Carama
Socially conscious hip hop artist, activist, motivational speaker, and director of One Lexington.
