Domestic Violence Victims Need a Place to Heal

A transitional center is helping women of color reinvent their lives

Donna M. Owens
ZORA
Published in
5 min readOct 1, 2019

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WWhen 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…

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