we spend the rest of the hour with acclaimed scholar, activist kimberle crenshaw.out honoring the stories of 177 black women and girls killed by police between 1975 and last year, who then had their lives race from memory when their deaths were not covered or misrepresented by the media, or were excluded from text. she focused online stories. in a recent l.a. times op-ed, she notes black women and girls are more likely than any other group of women to be killed by the police and "the confluence of factors that converge to make black women and girls the most affordable of all women to state violence also conspired to erase their loss of life both in individual cases and as a group." professor kimberle crenshaw is professor of law at ucla and columbia university, author of the new book “#sayhername: black women's stories of police violence and public silence." professor crenshaw, welcome back to democracy now! sadly, your book is more relevant today than ever. talk about what you wrote it, why we should know some of these stories of these women. kimberle: such a plea

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