by External Article | Jul 23, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caregiver Stories |
Deborah Danner was a 66-year-old Black woman with schizophrenia. In 2016, an NYPD officer shot her in her Bronx apartment while responding to her neighbor’s call that she had been behaving erratically. She did not survive. Chillingly, Danner wrote an essay four years...
by External Article | Jun 22, 2017 | Care Work Library, Caregiver News, Caring for a Friend, Finding Caregiver Support, For Friends & Family |
On Sunday morning, Charleena Lyles called the Seattle police to report a burglary. She was a black woman, pregnant, the mother of four children (including a child with Down’s syndrome), living in housing for formerly homeless individuals. The police showed up, found...
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