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Week of Action aims to amplify voices of Black survivors of sexual violence

Week of Action aims to amplify voices of Black survivors of sexual violence By: Scripps National and last updated 2021-04-28 15:21:27-04 There s a new push to amplify the voices of Black survivors of sexual violence and reshape the narrative around these women. It s part of the We, As Ourselves Week of Action this week. The Me Too movement, the National Women s Law Center and the TIME S UP Foundation are all behind this campaign. “We have to really disrupt this idea that this is not happening to Black women and girls, when in actuality, Black women and girls face a higher incidence of sexual assault and sexual violence in their lifetime and especially in our childhood,” said Monifa Bandele, Chief Operating Officer of the TIME S UP Foundation.

Recently uncovered bodies at Q Street reveal a connection to the Georgetown slave trade

Recently uncovered bodies at Q Street reveal a connection to the Georgetown slave trade Illustration by John Woolley Archaeologists discovered the remains of 28 African Americans at the 3300 block of Q Street NW in Georgetown from the early 1800s, prompting archeologists and historians to develop theories connecting the bodies to Georgetown’s slave trade and the Underground Railroad. With one body fully analyzed and six others in a preliminary analysis, the process of identifying and tracing the remains has been slow but garnered renewed attention over the area’s history of slavery following the wave of racial justice protests this past summer.

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