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Want to support organizations led by Black women? Want to support organizations doing work related to both police violence and the ongoing pandemic?

Consider donating to the African-American Policy Forum: aapf.org/donate

Check out some of the work we’ve been doing:

In 2015, AAPF launched the #SayHerName campaign. #SayHerName calls attention to police violence against Black women and girls, and demands that their stories be integrated into calls for justice, policy responses to police violence, and media representations of police brutality.

We continue to lift up the names and stories of Black women and girls who are killed by police.

An Open Letter from the Mothers of #SayHerName to the Mother of Breonna Taylor:

Since the pandemic struck, we've been holding weekly #UnderTheBlacklight webinars to explore the intersectional vulnerabilities that COVID lays bare. In each episode, panelists from a range of backgrounds have joined us and helped us make sense of this moment.

On #UnderTheBlacklight, we've talked about racial disparities in COVID infections and deaths, the pandemic's devastating effect on incarcerated populations, and how this moment is being used to entrench white supremacy and global capitalism.

And we've continued to produce our podcast, Intersectionality Matters with Kimberle Crenshaw (@IMKC_podcast). The podcast is hosted by executive director @sandylocks, who is joined on each episode by artists, scholars, and activists.