And we have the great privilege be the publishers of say her name, which is the focus of this program. Our Program FeaturesKimberle Crenshaw with Dorothy Roberts members of the say name Mothers Network and. In addition to the author talk, well have special performances evening from Rosalyn Coleman abbey, dobson, Margaret Odette and kim, and then also a book signing after organize by the brilliant independ bookseller here in philadelphia uncle bobby. So please thank uncle bobbys and and the free library of philadelphia hosting this event. Were so grateful. Be here, Kimberle Crenshaw charles, the cofounder and executive director of the African American policy forum and the founder and executive director of the center for intersectionality social policy studies at columbia law school. She is the Promise Institute professor at Ucla Law School and the isidore in civil cells. Baker professor at columbia law school. Shes popularly known her development of intersectionality, Critical Race Theory and the say her Name Campaign and is the host of the podcast intersectionality matters and the moderator of the Webinar Series the blacklight. She one of the most cited scholars legal history crenshaw is the coauthor of the new book is the subject of tonights program say her name black stories of Police Violence and public silence, which features a foreword by janelle monae, say her name provides an Analytical Framework for understanding black susceptibility to Police Brutality and state sanction and violence. And it explains we can effectively mobilize various and empower them to advocate for racial justice. Founded in 1996, the africanamerican policy is an innovative think that connects academic activists and policymakers to efforts to dismantle structural inequality. Apf promotes frameworks and strategies. Address a vision of racial that. Embraces the intersect actions of race, gender class, and the array of barriers that disempower those who are marginal ized in our society. You can visit their website at ww w dot apf dot r g. Kim crenshaw will be in dialog tonight with Dorothy Roberts. Roberts is the 14th pen integrates knowledge professor the george h. University professor of law, sociology and the raymond and d. Tanner moselle alexander, professor of civil at university of pennsylvania. She is also the founding director of the penn program on race science and society and intersect and internationally scholar, activist and social critic. She has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of gender race and class in legal concerning reproduction, bioethics and Child Welfare. Her latest book, which i cant recommend highly enough torn apart, is about how the Child Welfare system destroys black families and how abolition can build a safer world. Roberts is also the author of the classic killing the body, race, reproduction and the meaning of liberty, among other books, and has published more than 100 journals in essays and books and scholarly journals. Welcome to the stage Dorothy Roberts. The beautiful. Thanks so much for coming. And thank you for that warm welcome. Anthony well, i have the honor of serving as your emcee tonight as we continue to celebrate some of the release of, say her name black womens stories of Police Violence and silence by kimberly and the africanamerican policy forum. Tonight were going to hear live readings of excerpts from the book, participate in a collect dove ritual of remembrance and have an intimate conversation open with the brilliant author kim crenshaw, and members of the say her name Mothers Network. This book is an extension of the say her Name Campaign which began in 2014 with the goal of centering black womens experiences with, state sanctioned violence and Police Brutality. At the core of this work is the application of art, storytelling, testing and ritual to a highlight the names of black women and femmes whose lives stolen from us. As the book describes, the birth of the movement takes us back to the site of a white coffin. And here to read her own about the genesis of this campaign, we welcome the stage. The executive director of the African American policy forum Kimberle Crenshaw. Im standing an air conditioned auditorium thinking about Michelle Caruso and the countless other black women killed by police whose deaths . No. Was paying attention to. My audience on this balmy spring day is mostly made up. Public interest lawyers, students and faculty. Im the courage that michelles mother, fran garrett, exhibit it after Phenix Police killed in her own home. Michelles story like those too many others would have ended when Sergeant Percy dupree stole her life. Had she not been born to a tenacious mother who refused to let her daughters be forgotten, fran was determined that her daughters life and death would not be reduced to obscure ity. Another statistic no one counted. Michelle was killed just five days after a cop gunned down brown in ferguson, missouri. After seeing the Community Protests taking shape there, fran decided to march michelles casket to phenix city hall in brave act of protest. She joined a powerful tradition of black women resisting and denouncing the state violence that directly them and all too often destroys families. Friends marched to the phenix hall was a flare in the night. Friends acts literally placing her daughters casket. The door of municipal power not only demanded that michelle be seen but also rendered visible the Police Killings of other women, the sorrow or procession of michelles coffin to. City hall left a searing image that spoke to the many ways in which black womens faith has been left in the hands of police. While their stories have been marginalized and erased. While Michael Browns killing justifiably sparked a wave of nationwide protests protests over lethal Police Shootings of black men, the killing of black women like michelle who had yet to be memorialized in widespread activation ads and denunciations fran offered a power of full and moving witness to the fact black women were also losing their lives in circumstances that spoke to the disregard of black and family bonds. There was no sound reason for stories to be banished to the shadows of our collective consciousness. Mere afterthoughts in litany of savagery that has come to constitute antiblack state friends act reminded us all of the obvious fact that slain womens mothers dont grieve for them any less. Their children dont cry for them any less. Their siblings dont mourn them any. And we should not protest their killings less than we do. The killings of their brothers, fathers and sons. Six months later, as i look at the audience, i wonder who among them will michelle cousteaus name would they know of any daughters who were stolen like friends, wives . Or was the erasure, these horrific losses difficult to interrupt because of the reflexive ways that the very of antiblack Police Violence almost exclu passively to our indian sons to make the patterns of erasure visible and audible. I invite the audience to join me in something new. I ask those audience members who are able to do so to stand. I tell when you hear a name you dont recognize take a seat and seated. I promise to invite the last person to tell the seated audience what they know about the person whose name . No else recognized. Then i call out the names. Slowly deliberate only and loud enough. For even those seated in the very of the auditorium to hear eric garner or mike brown, tamir rice, philando castile, freddie gray. Im always bit surprised when one or two people dont recognize even the first two names, but fewer than a handful have taken their seats. By the time lift up freddie gray, the vast majority of people recognize these men and know the common risks that link their fates. Are black and did not survive an encounter with the police. I pause for a moment. I ask the audience to look around. The room is quiet and still people take in what they have. Demonstrate. Group literacy about the vulnerable ability of black people to Police Violence. At the moment, it seems a completely obvious reading of the social knowledge that is minute merely necessary to ground any conceivable collective action. I continue. I say, michel, because so. And then comes that which which of dozens sometimes, hundreds, sometimes a thousand people taking their seats. It is the sound of silence. The sounds of people taking their seats mount. As i the roll call Tanisha Anderson, ayanna stanley, kayla moore, india. Shelly fry, Corinne Gaines. One person is left standing after india kaga. But continue anyway. So people can hear more names. At last i released the last person from any obligation to speak. I remind everyone that im law professor. After all. And i only say the last person standing will tell us something about the name they recognize. To ensure everyones honesty throughout the exercise, their nervous tears as the last person takes. Their seat. This moment releases some of the tension in the room. Yet the point hangs over us. The silence. Black women whove been killed by the police has distorted our collective capacity to. Respond. We cannot address a problem we cannot name and we cannot name it. If the stories of these women are not heard. Thank you, kim, for that powerful reading from your book. A Common Thread that youll find repeated again and again in our tonight is motherhood is never protective shield against Police Violence for black women our children too are never protected the horror of our deaths and the marking of our bodies killer bull. We see this with the recent Police Killing of 21 year old takaya young in ohio in september. Young was a pregnant woman and mother of two who was shot by a Police Officer through the front windshield. Her car. We sadly see it again in the case of miriam carey who was killed years ago in washington, d. C. , on october 3rd, 2013. Miriam drove through a Police Checkpoint that was not clearly marked in washington, d. C. , with her one year old daughter strapped in the car. Within just minutes, Six Secret Service agents fired eight rounds in her car and two capitol Police Officers shot nine rounds into her car. Miriam was dead shortly after arriving the hospital. Luckily her one year old daughter survived. Miriam did not fire any shots. She didnt even have a gun in her car. Here to read the words of Valarie Carey miriam. Sister, please. Artist and performer margaret. Odette. My name is Valarie Carey. Im the sister of miriam carey. And im a part of the hashtag. Say her name Mothers Network. Mary m was a beautiful, a beautiful young lady. She to be successful in life. And as she got older she decided to go into the field of health and she became a registered dental hygienist. Im actually older than miriam. By seven years. And so theres a gap. I remember she was a baby because. She was so round and chubby. My father nicknamed her butterball and i guess my memories really started to develop when she got older and we would actually hang out more. That was my little sister. The day that miriam was killed, it was a thursday, october 3rd, 2013. I believe it was a thursday. I was in my office for an event i was hosting evening with Terrie Williams and so i was just really trying to get my thoughts together. What i was going to say. Im sitting at desk, my laptops and i use aol. And so i saw on the main page there was a blurb about something happening in d. C. I didnt click on it because i was busy. I was in my zone and. Had a tv at the time in my office and i didnt have it on. And then my phone started to ring. It was a after to my phone, just started ringing incessantly from different phone numbers. A lot of the phone i now know were coming from the d. C. Area. I actually picked up one of the calls because it was a connecticut area code number. And at the time my sister was living in connecticut. So you just recently moved there and purchased a coop. And so i answered the call because i thought maybe my sister i, i didnt know why all these calls coming through, but they werent registered my phone so i wasnt going answer it. And when i answered. This one particular call, there was a man on the other line. He was a reporter. He asked to speak me. And then he started me questions about. Miriam. What type of car did she drive . Did i know where she was at . And i just stopped and said, im not sure where this line of questioning is going, but before i could finish, he said, well, apparently you havent been watching the news. I need you to turn on your to cnn. And when i turned on the news, i saw what looked to be my sisters car. I saw looked to be my niece being held by an officer officer. And there was a footer that read susp act killed. Thank you, mark, for that powerful reading of valerie story of loss, survival and, remembrance. We honor the story of miriam and we will continue to uplift her name and aspiration. Valarie carey miriam carey sister and a valued member of the say her name Mothers Network, will be joining us in conversation later. To say her name. Mothers network is a community of mothers and Family Members of black women and friends killed by that works to provide support to mothers and families who also have been victimized. State violence. This community is in many ways a sisterhood of sorrow. They lean on one another for healing and support in what is otherwise a very isolating experience. Its through this solidarity of support and understanding that we also can come together to laugh, have moments of joy, and continue to advocate change in Law Enforcement and communities across the nation on. August 1st, 2016. Maryland. Baltimore county police entered the home of katherine gaines, a 23 year old mother, regarding unpaid traffic. Currently live corrie live streamed the interaction with the cops in her apartment on social media after facebook to cut her feed the officer royce ruby fired into her home killing her and injuring her five year old son. A jury later awarded gaines family, a 37 million award for wrongful death. But that judgment was overturned by the trial judge. But then later reinstated on appeal. To read the words of rhonda daum, karens mother. Please welcome Artist Performer kim yance. My name is rhonda dominguez. Corinne was my 23 year old baby. Oh, she was a very, very feisty young lady from toddlerhood. Very outspoken. Kind of bossy at times. She was just matter of fact. Growing up, she did very well in school and excelled all her classes. She went to a College Prep HighSchool CalledBaltimore City college high school, and she was interested in Political Science. During her senior year, she lost interest in Political Science because. There were so many things going on in society that contradicted. She was being taught. Now, i think that was the beginning of her starting to reach out and learn more about the government outside of what was made available, the media. She wanted to go behind the scenes, do her own research. Oh, she was an avid. Oh, my god. I would buy this girl ten books in a week and she would go through them. She read novels, but she also read books about marcus garvey, other informative things. She graduated time and she to go to morgan state university. She only stayed two semesters and she found out she was going to have cody. So i started looking at different colleges that would allow Young Mothers to have their children because wanted her to stay in school. But then she was like, well, you know, thats going to be too much. So she directed her attention to her other passion. She got a cosmetology license and started doing hair and makeup. Oh, she enjoyed it. She bought two homes as rental properties that she used for income. She bought her own vehicle, so she was independent. After michael brown, there was a whole Snowball Effect of police murders. Freddie gray was a neighbor of. I didnt personally know him, but i knew him from the neighborhood and it was literally a few blocks. Everything that unfolded was literally around the corner where she grew up. That was our community. And our community had been robbed. She was an activist role. She wanted teach because she was selftaught. She just wanted to enlighten the masses about things that were going on around her. She has a few spoken word, poems that are out. She would always do her little rants on facebook or, instagram about things that were going in the world. Just this corinne. What does it look like. It looks like an officer shouldnt allowed to make lateral moves within the department if they