11/28/2017
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"Black women and girls make up just 13 percent of the female population in the country but accounted for fully 35 percent of all missing women in 2020."
"This is a crisis that is hiding in plain sight, and I hope the hearing will help us to shine a light on the shocking plague of missing and murdered women and girls in communities of color across the c..."
"It is so often treated as kind of a marginal thing. It is like a detail, and this is why we have organized political society."
"In 2020, 100,000 of the quarter million women and girls who went missing in the U.S. were black, brown, or indigenous."