Summary: Whether the “war on women” is a fabrication of election year politics, scholar and activist Beth Richie says the threat of real violence to black women in the U.S. has never been more serious. And, with the partisan divide over the recent renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, she says legal, social, political and economic policies are to blame. Richie is author of “Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation.” Original airdate 07/25/12.
