US MI: The Battle Against 21st Century Jim Crow

Detroit Free Press, 09 Oct 2012 – Kemba Smith Pradia went to Tallahassee, Fla., last week to demand the right to vote. Back in the ’90s, when she was just Kemba Smith, she became a poster child for the excesses of the War on Drugs. Pradia, then a college student in Virginia, became involved with, and terrorized by, a man who choked and punched her. By the impenetrable logic of battered women, she thought it was her fault.