Zora Neale Hurston said in “Their Eyes Were Watching God, “De ni*** woman is de mule uh de world so far as Ah can see.”

The recent unrest brings this to bear. As we mourn the lives of black boys and me, black women - who’ve also died and been mistreated by society, are being left out of the conversation while simultaneously being asked to fight for the black man.

Who will stand for us?