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#SayHerName is a social movement that seeks to raise awareness for Black women victims of police brutality and anti-Black violence in the United States. [1] . The movement's name was created by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF). [2] #
Launched in December 2014 by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) and Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS), the #SayHerName campaign brings awareness to the often invisible names and stories of Black women and girls who have been victimized by racist police violence, and provides support to their families.
Mar 11, 2024 · Hard-line Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia wore a T-shirt to Thursday night’s State of the Union address that carried a seemingly simple message: Say Her Name.
Mar 15, 2021 · #SayHerName honors Breonna Taylor, other Black women killed by police. No one sets out to be a Black Lives Matter martyr. But somewhere along the way last year, as masked marchers from...
Jul 7, 2020 · NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Kimberlé Crenshaw, co-founder of the Say Her Name campaign, about how the Black Lives Matter movement can be more inclusive of Black women.
Jul 18, 2023 · In Kimberlé Crenshaw’s new book #SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of State Violence and Public Silence, out today, the UCLA and Columbia University law professor thoughtfully memorializes 177...
Sep 25, 2020 · According to the 2015 Say Her Name Report, Crenshaw and her team coined Say Her Name to shed “light on Black women’s experiences of police violence to support a gender-inclusive...
