In Memory Of Adilah Gaither, Tanganika Stanton, Mildred Beaubrun and Sakia Gunn: International Anti-Street Harassment Week

MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012 AT 9:39AM THE BLOGMOTHER

I just learned that this week is International Anti-Street Harassment Week while reading a post named after the documentary "Black Woman Walking". She was memorializing Adilah Gaither:

I lived to tell about it, but 16-year-old Adilah Gaither wasn’t so lucky. Black Woman Walking is dedicated to the memory of young Adilah,
who was shot and killed in 1998 while standing at a bus stop because she wouldn’t give a boy who was trying to holla her phone number.

http://blip.tv/play/AZKFdgI.html

For those of you who think this is funny or a compliment, It's not, it's deadly serious.

Take the case of Mildred Beaubrun.

Investigators said the men opened fire on a car full of teenage girls at John Young Parkway and Princeton Street two weeks ago. Mildred Beaubrun was removed from life support Tuesday, more than two weeks after she was shot at the Orlando intersection.

Investigators said Beaubrun and two of her friends stopped at a gas station after leaving Club Firestone. They were approached by a group of men asking for their phone numbers.

When the men didn't get what they wanted, they followed the girls to the intersection of John Young Parkway and Princeton (see map). One of them fired a shot. It hit Beaubrun, who was sitting in the back seat.

http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/waod/2012/3/19/in-memory-of-adilah-gaither-tanganika-stanton-mildred-beaubr.html