Nov 20, 2018
Years ago Tracey Thurman said, “It wasn’t a personal attack on me on the part of the police. They just weren’t trained for that back then.
As I read that statement, it made me wonder, yet again, how much have we learned since then? Have we been able to change our thinking and become better advocates for targets...
Nov 13, 2018
Twenty-nine years ago, in fall of 1989, NBC aired a TV movie that was so impactful that people who saw it then still remark on the effect it had on them. It was Tracey Thurman’s story, called “A Cry for Help, starring Nancy McKeon as Tracey and Dale Midkiff as Buck.
I recently watched the movie with two fellow...
Nov 6, 2018
In December of 1990, Tracey Thurman came to Washington DC to testify before a Senate Hearing. Then-Senator Joe Biden of Delaware invited her to testify as Congress considered a Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to address widespread intimate partner violence and a lack of resources for victims.
Although bitterness...