I'm Kimberly Crenshaw, and this is Intersectionality Matters, the podcast that brings intersectionality to life by exploring the hidden dimensions of today's most pressing issues, from say her name to the war on woke, DEI and CRT, and the global rise of fascism.

This idea Travelog lifts up the work of leading activists, artists, and scholars, and helps

listeners understand politics, the law, social movements, and even their own lives in deeper,

more nuanced ways.

I'm attorney Ben Kroop here with Dr. Kimberly Crenshaw and our leader of the Congressional

Black Caucus, Chairman Steve Horstford.

And we're with the families of those who have been taken from this earth far, far too soon.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Say Her Name campaign.

After a decade of advocacy for black women, girls, and femmes killed by the police,

we all hoped that we'd have fewer conversations like the one we'll have in this episode.

We really thought we were at a turning point that we were going to get systematic police reform in America that had eluded us for decades.

It did not happen.

We thought certainly after George Floyd was tortured to death on video during a pandemic.

And everybody saw it, Congressman Horstead.

We thought we were going to get police reform in America.

It didn't happen. And then after Tyree Nichols was brutally beaten by five police officers,

we thought we would get systematic police reform. It didn't happen. And I can only fathom,

had we got that reform, how many families up here like Sonia Massey and others would have been spared their loved one becoming another hashtag?

Last month, AAPF joined forces with Attorney Ben Crump, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Steve Horsford,

some of the courageous women of the Say Her Name Mother's Network,

and other family members who have lost a loved one to unjustified state violence.

We gathered in Washington, D.C., to address Congress and the press with our demands for reforms in the wake of yet another wave of innocent black life being taken by police.

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