Violence Against Black Women is Routinely Ongoing and Too Often Ignored and Marginalized by the Mainstream Media!

Earlier this year, a march in the nation’s capital this past week prompted thousands of crime victims and their loved ones to take to the streets to protest violence against capturing an often-ignored reality: Women of color bear the brunt of violent crime in the United States. More notably, the crowd that gathered near the U.S. Capitol in black-women-bear-the-brunt-of-violent-crime mid-September consisted of mostly Black women.

Headed by the nonprofit Alliance for Safety and Justice, the event challenged the nation’s prevailing “law and order” approach that has historically encouraged harsh criminal sentences and policing. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the ratification of the Violence Against Women Act, and more recently, participants of the march called for a new victims’ rights movement that is invested in curtailing crime, rehabilitation, economic advancement and directly assisting victims of trauma as opposed to focusing on punitive measures that focus on expanding incarceration rates.

Violence and mistreatment of Black people has long historical roots and is nothing new. What is just as troubling is the fact that the larger society (as well as much of the Black community), has a tendency to focus primarily on violence or issues that plague Black men. Let me make it clear, there is no doubt that Black men, particularly economically disadvantaged, lower-income and minimally educated…