Did you know that 1 in 5 women have been a victim of rape? According to a new survey, about 20% of women are raped at some point in their lifetime and in most cases the attacker is someone the woman knows, so says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Earlier studies have […]
A virginia man who spent 27 years behind bars for a rape he did not commit was officially declared an innocent man by a Virginia appeals court on Tuesday. SEE ALSO: Worst Kardashian Lawsuits Thomas Haynesworth, 46, spent more than half of his life behind bars after he was mistakenly identified by a rape victim […]
NEW YORK-Claudia Tillery, a teacher at Decatur School, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, has been charged with with raping a male student and giving him drugs and alcohol. According to police, the student is now fourteen and claims to have had a relationship with Tillery for two years. See also: Al Sharpton’s New MSNBC Commercial Features Pie See […]
NEW YORK— A travel agent said Tuesday she was flattered when a debonair journalist approached her in Central Park but the flirtation took a violent turn six months later when he forced her to perform a sex act in the stairwell of her apartment building and then told her she liked it. The woman said […]
A group of African American anti-violence advocates, activists, scholars, organizational and spiritual leaders have written an open letter to the anti-rape and violence against women organization, “SlutWalk.” “SlutWalk” was founded to combat people that blame women that were victims of sexual assault. Large Crowds Protest Rape Charge Acquittal Of NYC Police Officers Egyptian Army Gave […]
NEW YORK — After the rape case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn fell apart, many people have been pointing figures at the accuser, Nafissatou Diallo. Still there are many political and social reasons the case was dropped, including the drastically different backgrounds of the accuser and the accused. The Daily Beast Reports: And Diallo? Her biography is, […]
ZIMBABWE — Police in Zimbabwe are searching for a group of women who are drugging men and raping them at gunpoint. The Daily Nation reports: “We appeal to members of the public to pass any information to the police regarding three women who have gone on a spree of kidnapping and indecently assaulting young men […]
NORTH CAROLINA — The former pastor of the North Carolina church New Life Christian Center, Keith Devon Pitts, has been convicted of nine counts of sexual abuse with the same girl. WCNC News reports that “his nine counts include sex offense of a child and taking indecent liberties with a child.” Read More At YourBlackWorld.com […]
Rihanna’s “Man Down” video has sparked so much controversy, everybody from BET and the Parents Television Council to some of HelloBeautiful’s very own writers has pitched in their two cents. (Read a few words from HB’s ladies here: Is Rihanna A Justified Murderer? and here Does Rihanna’s “Man Down” Video Display A Double Standard?) But […]
Houston- At least four women are sexually assaulted in the greater Houston region every day — attacked in their homes and in their beds, in parking lots and on public streets, their assailants armed with pistols, knives, drugs and fast-flying fists. But of the more than 1,700 cases reported in 2009 alone, only 42 percent […]
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Clean cut singer Sean Kingston has been accused of sexual assault, but sources say cops don’t believe the woman. According to tmz.com, two women showed up for a party in one of the hotel rooms and Kingston was present.
