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An Elegy for Murdered Black Women

A poem in response to a recent article in The Guardian that highlighted the fact that at least four Black women were killed everyday in 2020.

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Donney Rose
Oct 07, 2021
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“There’s never been a moment in our society where there’s been a reckoning with the particular kinds of violence that’s meted out against Black women.” - Kimberlé Crenshaw; from The Guardian article “At least four Black women and girls were murdered per day in the US last year”

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