You're listening to Comedy Central.

Now!

Other than coronavirus, the biggest story this year has been Black Lives Matter,

a movement fighting for equality and justice,

and the reason so many of your favorite statues are suddenly unemployed.

But as much as everyone has been talking about BLM,

there's one aspect that doesn't get talked about enough,

the role of Black women in the movements.

National attention focused on police brutality of and police killings of

Black men is not extended to Black women.

Often Black women, Black trans women, are left out of the conversation.

While the names most associated with the Black Lives Matter movement are male,

Black women and girls are regularly victim to police brutality in the US.

Black women's experiences of police brutality tend to receive far less media and political attention.

Dealing with this double layer of discrimination,

Black women have often been at the heart of key civil rights movements.

For example, the Black Lives Matter movement

founded by three women back in 2013.

Yeah, think about it.

There's this giant, historic movement sweeping the country,

and 99% of us have never even heard of the women who founded it.

Which is pretty egregious.

...