Boston, 1979. A string of murders of black women in five months, mostly unrelated, some solved, others unresolved to this day. A true crime topic of the past that sounds all too familiar today.
Show Notes:
Murder, racism, sexism, and skewed media coverage resulted in social outrage and demand for political justice.
Trigger warning: Topic involves graphic details, discussion of rape and violence against women. Listener discretion advised.
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Kelly, J. and Tacie Dejanikus (August-September 1979), Roxbury: Women Organizing Against Violence, Off Our Backs v. 9 no. 8 p. 14, Retrieved from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25793041?read-now=1&seq=1
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