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18 mar 2023 · A new study, commissioned after the killing of Theus, a 16-year-old Black girl who was fatally shot and left alongside a South Los Angeles freeway, reveals that Black women and girls remain...
On July 22, 2018, three sisters, Nia, Letifah and Tashiya Wilson, [2] were attacked by a man wielding a knife, later identified as John Cowell, after exiting a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train at MacArthur station in Oakland, California. 18-year-old Nia Wilson died after her throat was slashed. Her older sister, Letifah, was stabbed in the ...
Three recent killings in the Los Angeles area have put the spotlight on the disparate impact of American gun violence on Black women and the lack of attention their stories receive, as the country reckons with some of the most intense spates of gun violence in years.. California city requires gun owners to carry liability insurance in first measure of its kind
22 sty 2023 · Black women and girls were killed in 2021, a 51% increase over 2019 and the largest jump of any racial or gender group during that period, according to the CDC.
8 lut 2024 · In 2020, Black women in the Northeast were three times more likely than white women (odds of 3.02) to be killed by a firearm, while firearm homicides among Black women in the Midwest were more than six times higher (odds of 6.31) than among white women.
8 kwi 2021 · Almost all of the increase in homicides took place in Los Angeles’ Black or Hispanic neighborhoods. Across the country, other cities followed a similar pattern last year: a spike in murders, concentrated in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods, according to a Marshall Project analysis.
17 mar 2023 · LOS ANGELES - Black women made up nearly one-third of all female murder victims in the City of Los Angeles over the past decade despite accounting for less than five percent of the city’s population, according to a new report by the Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department (LA Civil Rights).
