A Year After Sparking Outrage, Ella Crawley s Murder Remains Unsolved by Paul Garber
6:00am May 25, 2021 A flower arrangement faces Northwest Boulevard in Winston-Salem after a rally in Gateway Commons Park in 2020 urged an end to violence against women. The location was chosen because Ella Crawley was found nearby severely beaten, and later died. PAUL GARBER/WFDD
It’s been a year since the death of Ella Crawley, who was found brutally beaten in a Winston-Salem park and died a short time later. Crawley’s death became part of a local public outcry for Black victims of crime.
Her murder remains unsolved. Now the rallying call has gone from “speak out” to “speak up.”
The crowd cheered loudly on Feb. 5 as the announcement was made that Copperas Cove seniors Russel Cochran and Kacy Carter had been named Homecoming King and Queen for 2020.
Sitting here on the eve of the eve of New Yearâs Eve, reminiscing on the collective shit show this year has been for everyone in the country, state, and Triad is definitely a bummer. But things certainly could have been a lot worse for both Ian and me. That is the thing about our white, cisgender privilege, just the acknowledgment of this truth is something that a lot of those who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, differently-abled, and of a different gender identity donât have the luxury of doing.
With the senseless murders of Black people by police this year, especially that of Breonna Taylor, many white folks like Ian and myself have (finally) started to wake up and realize that Black women in this country have been consistently dealt a bad hand and deserve better. As Megan Thee Stallion artfully put it in her recent