Hello listeners, I'm your host Amara and this is Black Girl God a true crime podcast

on this episode of Black Girl Vaughn we tell the story of 34-year-old Chikita

Tate a criminal defense attorney from Baton Rouge Louisiana in February 2009

Chikita was stabbed dead while working late in her office those close to

Chikita could not imagine who or why someone would kill her at first people believed

her murder might be connected to her work but the actual killer was someone

much closer to her this is Chikita's story as many of you may know

October is domestic violence awareness month and I think it's important to

acknowledge the efforts to make us all more aware of domestic violence and

its effects during this month but we need to be aware of domestic violence every

day of every month because there are thousands of women men and children

living in fear and in danger all the time I think many of us believe that

domestic violence looks a certain way but it does not it exists in heterosexual

relationships and it exists within the LGBTQ relationships as well it affects

both women and men although men are less likely to report it than women for

reasons you can imagine but remember abuse isn't just physical it's mental and

emotional too and just because someone doesn't have physical bruises doesn't

mean that they're safe now there are certain demographics in which the

likelihood that they will encounter intimate partner violence is much higher

and black women are one of those demographics one in four black women will

encounter intimate partner violence in their lifetime that's 40% of all black

women so that means if you were in a room with a hundred black women 40 of them

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