This month, the National Black Women’s Justice Institute published “The Hidden Heart of Reentry: Lessons from Essie Justice Group’s Black Mama’s Bail Out Campaign and the Expertise of Women with Incarcerated Loved Ones”—an evaluation of the Black Mama Bailout campaign. The report explores how the annual campaign reunites Black mothers with their children and families while highlighting the often invisible labor and leadership of women impacted by incarceration.

Black LGBTQ+ women, girls, & gender-expansive people are disproportionately impacted by the criminal-legal system

This Pride, we are reminded that Black LBTQ women & girls are at greater risk for victimization, criminalization, & punishment.

Gender-based violence—including domestic violence—impacts an astonishing number of Black women.