TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press SPRING HILL, Fla. (AP) — When William and Judy Thompson met comedian Bill Cosby in the late 1980s to discuss their teen...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent LAST IN A SERIES WASHINGTON (NNPA) – “On May 15, 1995, two men ran up behind me as I approached my apartment...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent FOURTH IN A SERIES WASHINGTON (NNPA) – An online survey of sexual assault survivors conduced as part of this series...
(Salon) – Television has an uncomfortable love affair with rape plots. The short history of the medium has coincided with lifted restrictions, both legally and...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent THIRD IN A SERIES WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Simone Oliver had always been called, as they say in the religious community....
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent SECOND IN A SERIES WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The first time Tiffany Perry learned about her conception, she was too innocent...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent A woman is raped every 2 minutes in the United States. According to the U.S. Justice Department, nearly one...
Rochelle Riley, DETROIT FREE PRESS DETROIT (Detroit Free Press)—Kym Worthy is nobody’s victim. But the Wayne County prosecutor’s own rape more than three decades ago...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three more women have accused Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them years ago. Attorney Gloria Allred held a news...
Rebecca Boone, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP)—When Congress passed a law in 2003 aimed at ending sexual assault in U.S. prisons, jails and juvenile detention centers, survivors...
KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police questioned an Uber executive Tuesday about the company’s claim it conducts comprehensive background checks and a...
(Ace Showbiz) – Cee-Lo Green has been dropped from another music festival because of the controversial comments about rape he posted on Twitter recently. This time, BayFest...
(Boston Herald) – Public criticism is mounting against rapper-actor CeeLo Green, a former judge on NBC’s “The Voice” who was the center of a recent TBS...
(Daily Mail) – Cee Lo Green allegedly tweeted some controversial statements about rape on Monday and later deleted his Twitter account just days after pleading no...
JUDY LIN, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — State lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill that would make California the first state to define when “yes...
By Jeffery L. Boney Special to the NNPA from Houston Forward Times (Houston Forward Times) — According to researchers, the most common form of Drug Facilitated...
BISWAJEET BANERJEE, Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Two teenage sisters in rural India were raped and killed by attackers who hung their bodies from a...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Colleges and universities are struggling with sex assaults on campus, even as they spend more time and...
