The Movement For Black Lives Must Include Black Women

Until we as a society are outraged about the murder of ALL Black people, we are no closer to building a just future

Renee Nishawn Scott

Published in

ZORA

4 min readMay 30, 2020

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A photo of Breonna Taylor on a sign that a protestor is holding at a rally in Denver, Colorado. — A demonstrator holds a sign with the image of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police Department officers, during a protest in Denver, Colorado on June 3, 2020. Photo: Jason Connolly/AFP/Getty Images

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” — Zora Neale Hurston

Renee Nishawn Scott

Written by Renee Nishawn Scott

Writer for

ZORA

Renee is a PhD Student researching Black girlhood at the University of Maryland. You can find her tweeting @_nishawn

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