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.

NBWJI statement on police shooting and killing of Sonya Massey

NBWJI statement on Blendon Township (Ohio) police shooting and killing of 21-year-old Black woman Ta’Kiya Young

The consequences of “simple” police stops are anything but simple.

NBWJI statement responding to Kansas City Police shooting of 26-year-old Black woman Leonna Hale

As we celebrate Pride this month, we must acknowledge its history—which is at least partially a story of police violence against Black women

We are angry and anguished at learning that police in Columbus, OH, killed Ma’Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old Black girl. Ma’Khia called the...

With today's verdict in the case of Derek Chauvin, we are thinking about George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the many untold number of...

NBWJI released the following statement responding to the report that the Rochester PD pepper-sprayed a Black mother with her child.

The National Black Women’s Justice Institute released the following statement from Executive Director Dr. Sydney McKinney responding to...

The National Black Women’s Justice Institute released the following statement on Anjanette Young, a Black woman in Chicago, who was...

On October 7, 2020, NBWJI hosted a call for collective healing and justice for Breonna Taylor and the many named and unnamed Black women...

NBWJI released this statement in response to the tragic deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Ahmaud Arbery and the civil unrest sweep