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Our Legacy: Our Voice, Our Action, Our Power

This presentation by Dr. Baynes will discuss how Black women's deaths have not received the same level of global outrage against police brutality as the killings of cisgender Black men.

'Say Her Name' attempts to make the deaths of black women an active part of this conversation by saying her names. If black lives really do matter, all black lives have to matter. The #SayHerName hashtag was meant to amplify the names and narratives of Black women and girls who have also been the victims of police killings.

Ms. Breonna Taylor's death — and the deaths of many other Black women — haven't sparked the same level of global outrage against police brutality as the killings of cisgender Black men by law enforcement. Only until George Floyd’s death and Rayshard Brooks’ deaths did we hear people demand justice in Breonna Taylor’s death. 

Also on August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment, which prohibited voter discrimination based on sex, was officially ratified. It was then certified on Aug. 26, 1920. And yet most Black women would wait nearly five decades more to actually exercise that right. The  centennial of that Constitutional landmark arrives amid weeks of Black Lives Matter protests, women have called for greater recognition of Black women’s contributions to society.

Presented by Dr. Baynes from the EWU Africana Studies department.

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