X #ProtectBlackWomen: JT from City Girls & Kaykay, Incarcerated Mother

#ProtectBlackWomen became a rallying cry after police killed Breonna Taylor. Black women are also the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people and suffer high rates of abuse. In this episode, we talk to half of the platinum rap duo City Girls, the amazing rapper JT, who spent two years in prison during her artistic rise. We also talk to Kaykay, who has spent the last 25 years in prison for killing one of the three men who jumped her as a teenager. How do we embody, rather than just retweet, this vital call to #ProtectBlackWomen? @thegirljt @vicmensa @indigomateo @richiereseda ============== Check out JT First Day Out, the song JT recorded right after leaving prison, as well as The City Girls’ latest record Top Notch. Watch City Girls’ YouTube series, which was partly recorded during the time JT was imprisoned. Read Meg the Stallion’s op-ed in the New York Times, “Why I Speak Up for Black Women,” written after she was shot by a man and somehow became the person being criticized. See some of the impactful grassroots work being done to protect Black women, like that of the group Hoochies of Houston. Find out more information about how Black women disproportionately suffer different types of violence and how they are over-incarcerated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices