“This country has a virulent history of racist violence perpetuated against Black Women, yet we have tried to protect Black men from racism. Like Black men, Black women have been horribly impacted by white supremacy. Yet, there is often not the same outcry in our communities when a Black woman is raped,” ~Aishah Shahidah Simmons in Brooke Axtell’s “Black Women, Sexual Assault and the Art of Resistance” for ForbesWoman

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