Black women and girls in Los Angeles speak out against violence

Black women and girls in Los Angeles are speaking out to stop violence as they confront an outsized share of the city’s homicide toll, The Guardian reported Monday.

The report describes frustration among Black women and girls with what they see as failures by police and legislators to address the killings. Against that backdrop, they are stepping forward to push for change in a city where the deaths of women around them have shaped young people’s lives.

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• Black girls in LA keep seeing women around them getting killed. They’re driving change