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I’m sharing this from a post I saw on FB.

Wasn’t she gorgeous? And smart too. But sadly her story has a tragic ending. And, unfortunately, all together too common.

Alberta Jones, Louisville’s first female black prosecutor, was killed in 1965. The 34- year-old civil rights pioneer was beaten and thrown in the Ohio River. The prosecutor was pulled out of her rental car, beaten in the head with a brick until she lost consciousness and thrown into the Ohio River, where she drowned.

The brutal Aug. 5, 1965, murder of Alberta O. Jones, a civil rights activist and the first woman to become a prosecutor in Louisville, was never solved, despite fingerprints obtained from her car and witnesses who saw men tossing a body from a bridge. Never forget about Jones, a trailblazer who integrated the University of Louisville and worked as the first attorney for Muhammad Ali, who was then Cassius Clay, negotiating the contract for his first fight.

Why are white men so threatened by strong black women? There really is a creature problem down here.

Did anyone happen to make it to the Harry Denton send off that Johnny Love hosted at Harry’s Bar in SF last night? I unfortunately missed it. I’m sure it was a great party. Some of you may not know that Michelle designed the dresses for the cocktail waitresses at the Starlight Room.

RIP Harry!