Rally: Domestic violence survivors stand in solidarity with Bresha Meadows

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By Anna Foley When Ohio teen Bresha Meadows heads to a pretrial hearing Thursday, accused of shooting and killing her allegedly abusive father, she’ll be on the minds of dozens of Chicagoans who have been touched by domestic violence. On July 28, Bresha, 15, allegedly shot her father, Jonathan Meadows, in the head as he […]

#BlackWomenMatter: The fight to support incarcerated black women

By Jasmine M. Ellis A Medill Newsmakers Report There are 106,000 women in prison in the United States. But how does race factor into this? According to The Sentencing Project, the number of African-American women in prison was more than double that of white women in 2014.  This edition of Medill Newsmakers will examine how black women […]