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The Long & Storied History of Rape Kits

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S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys Project Cuts Through Stereotypes BY LEE ROSS, ACUMEN EDITOR Brandon Bell lived his life as any typical 13-year-old —...

Saying ‘Good-bye’ to the Consummate Journalist & Friend, Dorothy “Dot” Rowley

BY DR. SHANTELLA SHERMAN, ACUMEN PUBLISHER There was always something in her eyes. Something magical and familiar, warm, but also fiery....

The Long & Storied History of Rape Kits

Changing the perception of sex assault victims and survivors aids kit production and prosecution BY CHRISTIE PASCHAKIS ACUMEN SENIOR...

War Against the Weak

DC LAWMAKERS EVICT HOMELESS FROM ENCAMPMENT, CITE INCREASED CRIME AND VIOLENCE Acumen News Report PHOTOS BY SY SHERMAN / FOR THE ACUMEN...

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Lawmakers Offer Tubal Ligations or Vasectomies in Exchange for Time-Served in Prison BY DR. SHANTELLA Y. SHERMAN If West Virginia state...

Love is When a Man Brings the Groceries, Instead of Eating Yours

How the Film “Claudine” Continues to Inform Black Love Relationships, Forty-eight Years Later By Dr. Shantella Y. Sherman, ACUMEN...

'Boxing Day' Brings Romance, Touch of Black London to the Holidays

[By Lee Ross, Acumen Editor] It's clear to anyone who knows me that as an Anglophile, the thought of British Christmas, Boxing Day, and...

“We Need to Talk”

BY CHRISTIE PASCHAKIS, ACUMEN GUEST EDITOR The four words you never want to hear your partner say, and yet there they were – hovering...

POP RECOVERY: Charting the long-term recovery of Coronation Street’s Peter Barlow

BY LEE ROSS, ACUMEN EDITOR WITH DR. SHANTELLA SHERMAN Television writers rarely afford viewers storylines that incorporate the long-term,...

REAL MEN RIDE BULLS! Acumen PBR Coverage 2021

Award photo by Andre Silva Acumen's annual PBR (Professional Bull Riding) coverage was kicked up a notch this year at the EagleBank Arena...

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