How 'Is God Is' Is Changing the Conversation About Black Women and Domestic Violence

How 'Is God Is' Is Changing the Conversation About Black Women and Domestic Violence

NEW ORLEANS — When Gretta Gordy Gardner was a prosecutor, she asked a domestic violence victim’s mother why she had testified for the man who hurt her daughter.  The answer stopped her cold: It’s better to have a man who beats you than no man at all. “That made me understand the survivor so much more; her culture, growing up the way she did. But I think the thing with justice is — it can depend,” she said.  It’s something that sits with her till…