The same threat that exists for Black men when law enforcement is called exists for Black women—but it is often dismissed, ignored, or trivialized.
In this Throwback Thought, Madame Noire explores an excerpt from a conversation between Nikki Giovanni (poet, activist, teacher) and James Baldwin (novelist, essayist, and cultural critic) from 1971, where the two prolific writers mention in passing a phenomenon we now refer to as "copaganda."