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All the women are white, all the Blacks are men, and many of us have been raped: one filmmaker confronts sexual violence against Black women.(PROFILE)
WHEN AISHAH SHAHIDAH SIMMONS was in South Africa celebrating the end of legalized apartheid with the rest of the country, one nagging fact kept her from completely surrendering to the festive moment. "South Africa has one of the highest rape rates in the world," the 37-year-old, Philadelphia-based filmmaker says. Then 25, Simmons was part of the American Friends Service Committee's official delegation to observe South Africa's "first and free non-racial" election. But a Black South African female activist gave Simmons a poster that would change her life. "One of the most violent social settings in South Africa is in the home," it read. As she recalls in an article ...
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