No Tears For Black Girls

Only Two Weeks: The Killing of Vontisha “Sway” Williams

Vontisha “Sway” Williams was a mother, grandmother, and business owner trying to rebuild her life after unimaginable loss. She had only been in her new home for two weeks when gunfire tore through it in the middle of the night. Her younger daughter survived. Sway did not. In this episode of No Tears For Black Girls: The Cases They Ignored, Samantha Paul tells the story behind the headline and brings listeners back to the woman at the center of it all: a loving, dependable, hardworking Black woman whose family is still fighting for answers. This is not just a story about violence. It is a story about grief, survival, silence, and the fight for justice for Vontisha “Sway” Williams.

Left Fighting for Air at Virtua Mount Holly Hospital: Perdisha “Para” Champion

In this episode of No Tears For Black Girls: The Cases They Ignored, we examine the death of twenty-eight-year-old Perdisha “Para” Champion and the questions her family says still remain about what happened inside Virtua Mount Holly Hospital in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Through a direct interview with Para’s mother, Sophia Shannon, this episode follows the final hours before her daughter’s death and the anguish that followed. Sophia says she watched Para experience severe medical distress during a night that should have ended in care, not loss. What emerges is not only a mother’s grief, but a family’s demand for answers. Sophia does not speak like someone searching for closure. She speaks like a mother who believes her daughter was failed. As this episode traces the timeline she shared, it also steps into a larger and more painful conversation about medical accountability, delayed response, unequal treatment, and the mistrust many Black families already carry into hospital spaces. This is the story of Perdisha “Para” Champion, the mother who refuses to let her name disappear, and the questions that still refuse to go away. If you want a shorter version for platforms with tighter space, use this: In this episode of No Tears For Black Girls: The Cases They Ignored, host Samantha Paul examines the death of twenty-eight-year-old Perdisha “Para” Champion and the questions her family says remain about what happened inside Virtua Mount Holly Hospital in New Jersey. Based on a direct interview with Para’s mother, Sophia Shannon, this episode explores Para’s final hours, a family’s demand for answers, and the larger issues of medical accountability and Black medical mistrust. Related reading: Death Apnea, a No Tears For Black Girls: Case Files novel by J.C. Reedburg, explores medical racism, hospital erasure, and what happens when Black women are treated as disposable inside systems that were supposed to protect them.

She Said She Was Scared at 2 AM. By 11:46 AM, Hannah Toby-Dean Was Dead.

Hannah “Khadija” Toby-Dean was 25 years old. A Navy veteran. A Muslim woman. A rapper known as Hannah Bandz. On June 13, 2025, she told a family member she was afraid for her safety. Less than ten hours later, her mother got the call that Hannah was dead. Then came the details that made the case even harder to ignore: a disabled GPS tracker, an empty suitcase, and credit cards hidden under a spare tire. In this episode of No Tears For Black Girls: The Cases They Ignored, Samantha Paul walks through the documented timeline, the family’s account, and the questions the Greenville Police Department still has not answered. This is Black true crime rooted in Black women stories the system too often leaves behind. If this episode stayed with you, continue the journey with Death Apnea by J.C. Reedburg, a haunting No Tears For Black Girls: Case Files novel about institutional erasure, Black bodies, and the systems that look the other way. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSP5845P [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSP5845P] #JUSTICEFORHANNAH #JUSTICEFORHANNAHBANDZ #greenvillenc #GreenvillePoliceDepartment SHOW NOTES In this episode, Samantha Paul examines the death of Hannah “Khadija” Toby-Dean, a 25-year-old Navy veteran, Muslim woman, and rapper known as Hannah Bandz. Using the family’s documented timeline and publicly available context, this episode walks through Hannah’s final days, the unanswered questions surrounding her death, and the disturbing details that continue to raise concern. Topics discussed include Hannah’s final calls to family, the delayed and limited public answers in the case, the returned vehicle with a disabled GPS tracker, the empty suitcase, and the credit cards found hidden beneath the spare tire. The episode also examines the broader pattern of how Black women’s stories are too often minimized, delayed, or ignored. This case remains open. If this episode moved you, please share it, leave a five-star review, and help keep Hannah’s name in rooms it has not reached yet. Read next: Death Apnea by J.C. Reedburg https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSP5845P [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSP5845P] Follow and support: No Tears For Black Girls: The Cases They Ignored Justice for Hannah Bandz campaign on social media

He Posted 693 Bodies on Facebook. Florence County Closed the Case Six Times.

In 1996 a South Carolina court convicted a man of promoting the prostitution of a child and sent him home with a suspended sentence. Over the next twenty-three years he filed flyers, built a DJ reputation, and accessed hundreds of Black girls and women across Florence County while law enforcement closed case after case, marked reports unfounded, and watched evidence walk in and out of their offices without making a single arrest that stuck. In 2011 a thirteen year old girl sat in a hospital and told a deputy she was afraid she had been exposed to HIV by a thirty-four year old man who paid her for sex. The case was marked unfounded. In 2018 a family member put a phone with evidence directly into a deputy's hands. The case was administratively closed. That same year six SD cards were found in a sock in his bedroom drawer while two underage girls were inside his home. He was charged with marijuana possession. He went home. His name was Jason Roger Pope. On his own Facebook page he wrote that he had six hundred and ninety-three bodies. All Black females. This is Black true crime. This is a Black women story. This is what institutional indifference looks like when it has twenty-three years to run. No Tears For Black Girls is the podcast that refuses to let these cases become footnotes. This episode is not comfortable. But it is necessary. SHOW NOTES Episode: He Posted 693 Bodies on Facebook. Florence County Closed the Case Six Times. This week on No Tears For Black Girls, host Samantha Paul covers the documented case of Jason Roger Pope, a Florence, South Carolina DJ and promoter who used social media, party flyers, and local social capital to access and exploit hundreds of Black girls and women over nearly three decades while law enforcement repeatedly had evidence in hand and failed to act. This episode covers the full timeline from Pope's first conviction in 1996 through his 2023 guilty plea on thirteen charges including five counts of sex trafficking of a minor. It examines the documented failures of the Florence County Sheriff's Office, the public health silence that followed his arrest, and the gap between the thirteen charges he was convicted on and the six hundred and ninety-three encounters he publicly claimed. It also examines why no hate crime charge and no HIV criminalization charge was ever filed despite evidence supporting both. This is Black true crime told through the lens of institutional accountability. This is a Black women story that national media covered in a paragraph while the Black press and community advocates kept it alive for years. No Tears For Black Girls exists because these stories deserve more than a paragraph. Content warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of sexual abuse of minors, human trafficking, deliberate HIV exposure, and systemic law enforcement failure. Stream the music:Search No Tears For Black Girls Soundtrack wherever you stream music to find Flowers For The Living, the latest EP performed by Jayda Truth. Written for the women still here. For the ones still carrying weight the world pretended not to see.Direct link in show notes. Read the book:Death Apnea by J.C. Reedburg, part of the No Tears For Black Girls Case Files series, is available now on Amazon. Kindle Unlimited subscribers can read it at no additional cost. Print copies available for those who want to hold this story in their hands. 👉 www.amazon.com [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSP5845P] You can also search No Tears For Black Girls by J.C. Reedburg on Amazon to find the full catalog. Support the show:If this episode moved something in you leave a five star review wherever you listen. Share it with someone who needs to hear it. Every review helps the algorithm push these stories to the people who need them most. Find us everywhere:Search No Tears For Black Girls on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you listen to podcasts. This is No Tears For Black Girls. Stay loved. Stay safe. Let there be light.

She Lived In Her Car, Rationed Her Medication, And Died Alone On New Year's Eve. This Is Her Story.

Today on No Tears For Black Girls we are doing something we have never done before on this show. We are reading to you. Death Apnea is a book written by J.C. Reedburg, part of the No Tears For Black Girls Case Files series, and it lives inside the same universe as this podcast. It is a story rooted in real documented patterns of Black women disappearing into hospital systems without proper family notification, bodies stored for months while families search, and organs removed without consent. It is built on the same foundation this show was built on. Black women stories that the world moves past too quickly. Black true crime that never makes the national headlines. Patterns that have been happening for four hundred years and just keep changing their clothes. Chapter Six is called The Tower Card. It is New Year's Eve in New Orleans. A woman named Nettie Moreau wakes up in the front seat of a gold Chevy Impala. She makes coffee with a half frozen water bottle. She brushes her teeth into a paper cup. She dresses with the precision of someone who has learned to keep her dignity in conditions that were never designed to allow for it. She writes a letter to her daughter that she hopes nobody ever has to read. She lights a candle on her dashboard altar. She pulls a tarot card and it is the Tower. Again. She has a heart condition she cannot afford to treat. She has prescriptions folded in her glovebox next to an expired insurance card. She has a dog named Goldie who loves her completely. She has a daughter at Dillard University on a full scholarship who does not know her mother is homeless. And she has one last night ahead of her in a city that stopped noticing her a long time ago. This chapter will stay with you. After the reading we will tell you what happens next and how to get the full book completely free today on Amazon Kindle. If you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription this book is free for you indefinitely. Paperback and digital editions are both available now. This is No Tears For Black Girls. Black true crime. Black women stories. Told with care, with truth, and without apology. SHOW NOTES: Today's episode features a full reading of Chapter Six, The Tower Card, from Death Apnea by J.C. Reedburg. Part of the No Tears For Black Girls Case Files series. Get the book free right now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSP5845P https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSP5845P [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSP5845P] Free to download on Amazon Kindle today March 25th 2026. Free indefinitely for Kindle Unlimited subscribers. Paperback and digital editions available at the link above. Death Apnea is a fictional story rooted in real and documented cases of Black women being processed through hospital systems without proper family notification. The real cases referenced in this book include baby Samaria Sauls, Tanya Walker, the Sacramento Dignity Health bodies, and the Alabama inmate organ removal cases. These are not conspiracy theories. These are court filings, news reports, and family testimonies. The No Tears For Black Girls universe includes thirteen published books, a podcast with 150 plus episodes, and an ongoing mission to tell Black women stories that mainstream media covers too briefly and moves on from too quickly. Search No Tears For Black Girls on Amazon to find all books in the series. If this episode brought anything up for you please reach out. Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741741. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233. New episodes of No Tears For Black Girls drop every Tuesday. Subscribe wherever you listen so you never miss a story. Leave a five star review if this episode moved you. Share it with someone who needs to hear it. The more people who listen the more Black women stories we can tell and the more families we make sure are never forgotten. Follow us everywhere under No Tears For Black Girls.