Every ten minutes, somewhere in the world, a woman or girl is killed by an intimate partner or family member.1 This grim reality, revealed in the UN’s Femicides in 2023 report, exposes the harrowing scale of the global femicide crisis. Categorized as the most extreme form of misogyny, femicide is the fatal culmination of a broader epidemic of violence against…
Black Femicide
Black femicide is a construct used to describe the deliberate killing of Black women and girls, who face homicide at a disproportionate rate. Rosa Page, an American nurse, coined the term building on the redefinition of femicide by Dr. Diana Russell and founded the Black Femicide U.S. movement.
Researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Columbia Mailman School of Public Health conducted an analysis. They discovered that, between 1999 and 2020, Black women were six times more likely to be murdered than their white counterparts.
Moreover, the study emphasizes that Black women are at a greater risk of being killed by firearms than white women.
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Gene Deal backs Al B Sure! and carefully words his belief that Sean “Diddy” Combs killed Kim Porter in an act of femicide.
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Research exposes the alarming rate of Black femicide in the U.S. and explores the urgent need for solutions.