BLACK WOMEN ARE SIX TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE KILLED THAN WHITE WOMEN, DATA REVEALS
February 2024
NBC News, shared by VAWnet here
“In the U.S., Black adult women are six times more likely to be killed than their white counterparts, troubling new data reveals… Homicides were classified in this study as death by shooting, piercing, cutting and other forms of violence. Racial disparities varied among states; in Wisconsin, for example, Black women were 20 times more likely to be killed than white women. Black women living in Midwestern and Northeastern states were also more likely to be killed by a firearm, the paper found.”