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Breonna Taylor and hundreds of Black women have died at the hands of police. The movement to say their names is growing.

Breonna Taylor and hundreds of Black women have died at the hands of police. The movement to say their names is growing. Donna M. Owens © Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY Kimberlé Crenshaw, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum wears a hoodie with the names of Black daughters, sisters, wives, cousins, and community members killed by police. No one sets out to be a Black Lives Matter martyr. But somewhere along the way last year, as masked marchers from Louisville to Las Vegas chanted her name, Breonna Taylor became a symbol of change. Taylor’s fate was sealed in the wee hours of March 13, 2020, when Louisville Metro Police officers burst into the 26-year-old’s apartment on a no-knock warrant, firing 32 bullet rounds and killing the emergency room technician as she stood in her hallway with her boyfriend, who survived.

Black women like Breonna Taylor die every day at the hands of police. It's time we said their names.

#SayHerName honors Breonna Taylor, other Black women killed by police