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Police violence against black women is very real.
The level of violence that black women face is such that it's not surprising that some of them do not survive their encounters with police.
They've been killed shopping while black, driving while black, having a mental disability while black, having a domestic disturbance while black.
They've even been killed being homeless while black.
In 2014, the African-American Policy Forum began to demand that we "say her name" at rallies, at protests, at conferences, at meetings, anywhere and everywhere that state violence against black bodies is being discussed.
We have to be willing to bear witness, to bear witness to the often painful realities that we would just rather not confront, the everyday violence and humiliation that many black women have had to face, black women across color, age, gender expression, sexuality and ability.
Several black women's names will come up.
It is a tool to reimagine a world where black people are free to exist, free to live.
It offers a new vision for young black girls around the world that we deserve to be fought for, that we deserve to call on local governments to show up for us.
We need this because the global reality is that black people are subject to all sorts of disparities in most of our most challenging issues of our day.
Haiti is the poorest country in this hemisphere, and its inhabitants are black people.
And this would not happen if this nation didn't have a population that was black, and we have to be real about that.
MB: So Alicia, you've said that when black people are free, everyone is free.
The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white.
And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum the worse off your are.
We have to address problems at the root, and when you deal with what's happening in black communities, it creates an effervescence, right?
The reality is that black women make something like 64 cents to every 78 cents that white women make.
PC: Yeah, we have to invest in black leadership.
What we've seen is thousands of black people showing up for our lives with very little infrastructure and very little support.
And I also think leadership looks like everybody in this audience showing up for black lives.
I've come up with this new mantra after coming back from a three-month sabbatical, which is rare for black women to take who are in leadership, but I felt it was really important for my leadership and for my team to also practice stepping back as well as also sometimes stepping in.
PC: I am hopeful for black futures.
And I say that because we live in a society that's so obsessed with black death.
We have images of our death on the TV screen, on our Twitter timelines, on our Facebook timelines, but what if instead we imagine black life?
We imagine black people living and thriving.
And what I'm seeing is that there's also an emerging network of black, undocumented people who are resisting the framework, and resisting the criminalization of their existence.
So in terms of action, I think that it is awesome to sit here and be able to listen to you all, and to have our minds open and shift, but that's not going to get black people free.
And that is intricately related to black lives.
But there are groups that are doing work in our communities right now to make sure that black lives matter so all lives matter.
And all I want to do is celebrate her for her beauty, and the things that make her beautiful and special and free, from her long acrylic nails, to her uncompromising black feminism.
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