Guilty When Black

by Carol Mersch

Overview

Guilty When Black is the poignant, gut-wrenching story of a young African American woman, Miashah Moses, who, through unrelenting media attention and a rush to judgment by the DA, was charged with second-degree murder in the fiery deaths of her two small nieces, Noni (4) and Nylah (18 months) when she fed them lunch and left for eight minutes to empty the trash. While she was gone, the faulty stove caught fire, a not uncommon occurrence in the low-income apartments, according the electrical contractors. The book's four-part story offers a rare glimpse into the unique challenges faced by minority and marginalized women in Oklahoma, a state with the highest rate of female incarceration in the nation. Miashah's plight is intertwined with vivid stories of five incarcerated women, the rise of one judge and fall of another, and the landmark exoneration of three black men wrongfully sentenced for crimes they did not commit. The non-fiction book is prefaced with a gripping account of the Tulsa 1921 Race Massacre, the largest slaughter of African Americans in U.S. history that left the city's affluent Greenwood district, known as the "Black Wall Street," burned to the ground.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781954095083
Publisher:	Yorkshire Publishing
Publication date:	12/29/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Carol Mersch is an Oklahoma author and journalist specializing in narrative non-fiction. She has published eight books and numerous articles which she authored and co-compiled with others in areas of space exploration, law enforcement, and spirituality.

She subsequently left the corporate world to form ProvidenceWorks LLC, a business enterprise for developing articles and books "that make a difference."

In 2011-2018 she was featured on Houston Fox26, Tulsa ABC NewsOn6, BBC World Radio, Dallas CBS Radio KRLD, MSNBC, CNN Faith, and two magazines in Europe, Spaceflight Magazine and Sorted-a Christian men's magazine-for her research into the first Lunar Bible covered in her book The Apostles of Apollo. The historic Bibles carried to the moon and their heirship have been featured by the Associated Press, the Houston Chronicle, the Baytown Sun, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN Belief, and Al Jazeera "America Tonight" (Sept 2015).  For more information see www.carolmersch.com.

Carol Mersch is an Oklahoma author and journalist specializing in narrative non-fiction. She has published eight books and numerous articles which she authored and co-compiled with others in areas of space exploration, law enforcement, and spirituality. She subsequently left the corporate world to form ProvidenceWorks LLC, a business enterprise for developing articles and books "that make a difference." In 2011-2018 she was featured on Houston Fox26, Tulsa ABC NewsOn6, BBC World Radio, Dallas CBS Radio KRLD, MSNBC, CNN Faith, and two magazines in Europe, Spaceflight Magazine and Sorted-a Christian men's magazine-for her research into the first Lunar Bible covered in her book The Apostles of Apollo. The historic Bibles carried to the moon and their heirship have been featured by the Associated Press, the Houston Chronicle, the Baytown Sun, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN Belief, and Al Jazeera "America Tonight" (Sept 2015). For more information see www.carolmersch.com.