The killings of Black women: five findings from our investigation | Race
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 30, 2022
Five Black women and girls were killed every day in the United States in 2020, as a national increase in gun violence during the pandemic took a heavy toll on some of the country’s most vulnerable people.
In all 1,821 Black women and girls were killed in 2020. That was an additional 461 women and girls who were murdered in 2020 compared with 2019 – more than one additional killing a day.
As part of a new Guardian series on the homicides of Black women . . .
