homicides
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SF Activists Speak Out After 3 Black Women Are Killed Within a Month
Monday, San Francisco city and community leaders gathered in the Tenderloin district for a call for action in the wake of three homicides where black women were killed within a month’s time. “Any homicide in the city is difficult and inexcusable,” activist Geoffrea Morris told Fox 2 KTVU, “but when we look at the last…
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Dancing With the Devils We Know: What the CDC’s New ‘Intimate Partner Violence’ Report Tells Us About the Value of Black Women
The first time I was hit by a man, I was 11. Actually, he wasn’t yet a man; he was 13, an eighth-grader to my sixth. And we weren’t fighting, or even roughhousing. We were rehearsing for a school play when he abruptly asked me to be his girlfriend. Embarrassed and incredulous, I laughed and…
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Chicago Ends a Violent 2016 With 762 Murders
Chicago ended 2016 with a record number of shooting incidents and the most homicides in two decades, ABC News reports. According to the report, Chicago closed out the year with 3,550 shooting incidents—in which more than 4,000 people were shot—and 762 murders. That averaged out to more than two murders and almost 10 shootings every…