What Aleshea Harris’s 'Is God Is' makes plain about Black femicide, the Black church, and a film canon that has spent decades asking Black women to read their own endurance as holiness.
As Black women, we're taught so early that our strength is a container meant to hold everything others refuse to carry.
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Cerina Fairfax should be the focus of these discussions, not the mental health of the man who took her life while her children were home.
Justin Fairfax served as Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor from 2018 to 2022, though two sexual assault allegations derailed his career.