Black Women and the Prison Industrial Complex
I came of age in Elizabeth, New Jersey, a suburb of Newark, during the 1980s. I witnessed and experienced how crack cocaine infiltrated and devastated Black communities. I watched people I regarded as sisters and fictive kin become victims of the crack cocaine epidemic and the subsequent War On Drugs. The 1980s signified America’s War on Drugs and Tough…
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