#SayHerName: Kimberlé Crenshaw on Black Women Killed by Police & DeSantis's Pro-Slavery Curriculum

We speak with acclaimed scholar and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw about her new book _#SayHerName,_ which honors the stories of 177 Black women and girls killed by police between 1975 and 2022 whose deaths received little media coverage or other attention. "We can't give these women back to their families, but we can make sure that they are not lost to history," Crenshaw tells _Democracy Now!_ She also discusses the ongoing right-wing "attack on Black knowledge," such as Florida's new education curriculum that claims slavery had "personal benefit" for enslaved people, as well as the recent death of civil rights scholar Charles Ogletree.

[chessicacroskey]

Thank you Democracy Now for seeing the importance of this issue and having Ms. Crenshaw on your platform!❤👏🏾

[workingtoseethelight]

It is totally ridiculous trying to find the "benefits of slavery" and people who have any semblance of morals should stop!

[AbdulaliMuhammad-bsjt]

Brother Malcolm x years ago that black women are the most unprotected women in America so this is nothing new🎉

[Vonnie]

Thanks for sharing. Over 70, 000 missing AA women and children in America.

[Sumiya-lpmm]

I've worked in mental health for over 40 years, the force police use in the field with people having an episode or on the autistism spectrum was never needed inside or before admission to a facility. Grabbing, slamming, beating, yelling and pulling weapons/cuffs out sends the person from 10 to 1000 in noncompliance and fear of harm while the are already going through a crisis.

[MrJacobrabbit]

Good job for putting those stories out there

[juanreza]

My heart is breaking over listening to Kimberlé's continuing suffering from the history of the injuries to all black women who have lived in the United States and who are responsible for making the country wealthy and powerful through reproduction.

[Ianpact]

Thank you, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Amy, and DN.

[tamikaqueen]

This is a good book to read. Thank God he has protected.

[annettebacalja]

It’s a shame how hard we work to be the most disrespected group of people in the world. No matter, how hard we work, how smart we are, how beautiful we are we are still seen as a threat and less than dirt. We take care of American population, or families, go to school and work; we need our respect.

[amandasaunders]

Sheriff Hill, Clayton County, GA. Cruel and unusual punishment of all detainees while in his custody. A black Sheriff who said. "My county is not a democracy."

[ronaldchildress]

We as black men and women need to stand together against the racial injustice these tyrant cops

[jerrellhoggard]

Black people live in stressed situations every day living in this country .police are not trained in mental health.

[angiebaby]

Black people let's take our kids out of public schools. Our tax dollars support alot of the things that harm us.

[juliao]

Amy Goodman I feel you give me hope about the truth

[lawrencefootes]

The Lord is a witness against all the devils who have done the children of Israel harm ! They will not escape punishment!

[BrandonEM]

Overwhelmingly majority of Black police shooting victims are Black men. Where are these numbers coming from?

[Jwa-fonb]

Thank you for protecting black women next we need to show support for black children

[brendajenkins]

Our Black ancestors came with skills as SKILLED Labors to grow the land and plant 🪴 the cotton and tobacco, sugar ect...as Africans new how to farm land as they understood agriculture for living in Africa. 🙌 The white ancestors did NOT so they put our black ancestors into the field not as just slaves to do the field work. They knew our blacks ancestors knew HOW to grow amd get the job did 🙄. We should start with the tobacco industry to pay reparations as the company white owners profit from the skills and labor LEARNED from our black ancestors which they taught their white great- grand mothers and fathers and now grandchildren. Reparations NOW!

[stephaniecannon]

Thank you for sharing, "Amy Goodman." ❤