Domestic Violence Victims Need a Place to Heal
A transitional center is helping women of color reinvent their lives
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5 min readOct 1, 2019
When Brittany Smith, 23, was gunned down by her boyfriend in a Houston hotel last October, the case garnered local and national headlines. Her killer also took his own life, but one person survived: Smith’s son, then just four years old, who was reportedly the one who…