Last week, the #SayHerName campaign and report and a National Day of Action for Black Women and Girls highlighted the stories of Black women who have been killed by the police. From #SayHerName: Toward a Gender Inclusive Analysis of State Violence:
We have emphasized that Black women and women of color’s experiences of racial profiling and police brutality are not aberrations or distractions from the central conversation, which features cisgender, heterosexual Black men and men of color as the prime protagonists, but rather are central to our understanding of the impacts of policing on our communities, and to the solutions we pursue.
Nation-wide action included a vigil in NYC’s Union Square and a protest by BlackOUT Collective in San Francisco.
