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What’s up folks, @_FeliceLeon here and tonight #TheRoot and @hbomax present: Black Women Breaking The Silence.

Join us tonight for a conversation moderated by @ElaineWelteroth, featuring @deardrewdixon @SheriSher_Bx & @kiernamayo. Let’s go!

#OnTheRecord
ICYMI: At least 1 in 5 Black women are survivors of sexual assault.

At least 35% of Black women have experienced some form of contact sexual violence during their lifetime.

Let's talk about it. #OnTheRecord
"Black people didn't seem to know that the film [@OnTheRecordDoc] existed... I'm sort of in a place of pain about this, to be honest with you" @deardrewdixon
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This year’s list of #TheRoot100 honorees is a reminder of the beauty and brilliance of blackness, at a time when the political and cultural landscape has grown even more hostile to the idea of black achievement! trib.al/dCxtJMy
No. 100: Elizabeth Lindsey (@elindse1)

Lindsey is the executive director of Byte Back, an organization that trains underrepresented communities in tech-sector careers: trib.al/2STc2Br
No. 99: Brooke Obie (@BrookeObie)

The managing editor of black film and TV site @shadowandact sparked a national conversation about Green Book, another in a long line of films that centered whiteness at the expense of compelling black stories: trib.al/rtf4FPh
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