Black Girl, 12, Electrocuted While Straightening Her Hair

Black Girls, Others, Should Stop Mechanically and Chemically Straightening and Curling Their Hair.Yesterday, in the northeast of Brazil, a twelve year-old Black girl chemically straigtened her hair and then electrocuted herself as she tried to use her mother’s curling iron...

Blogging for Justice: Against Police Pretrial Electrocutions 4/24

A Day of Blogging for Justice: Standing Up AgainstPolice Pre-Trial Electrocution - April 24, 2009Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and Electrocuted While Black.. When I first proposed renaming "tasering" "police pre-trial electrocution and execution", some...