Whereas social justice and criminal reform movements of the past few decades have often focused on or sprung out of protests of violence or against Black men and boys, yet Black women and girls are also frequent victims of such violence and harassment but do not receive the same media attention, public condemnation, or calls for justice; Whereas the Black women victims of State violence and excessive force are often forgotten, if they are ever made public in the first place, and include names such as Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Atatianna Jefferson, Pamela Turner, Alexia Christian, Mya Hall, Gabriella Nevarez, Shantel Davis, Malissa Williams, Shelly Frey, Kathryn Johnston, Alberta Spruill, Natasha McKenna, Sheneque Proctor, Rekia Boyd, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Meagan Hockaday, Denise Stewart, Roasann Miller, Alesia Thomas, Korryn Gaines, Nina Pop, Yvette Smith, Tarika Wilson, and Kendra James, alongside countless others; Whereas Black women are often leaders in the fight for rights, social justice, and equality for all people, such as Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, who founded the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the murder of Trayvon Martin; Whereas the incarcerated female population has grown eight-fold due to stiffer drug sentencing laws and postconviction barriers to reentry that uniquely affect women; Whereas Black girls are 10 times more likely to be disciplined and 6 times more likely to be suspended than their White counterparts; Whereas women represent a growing share of all arrests in the country as arrests of men decline; Whereas women account for a larger share of all police-initiated contacts than they do arrests suggesting more interactions with law enforcement than arrest records represent; Whereas Black women are approximately 17 percent more likely to be stopped in a police-initiated traffic stop than White women; Whereas Black women are roughly three times as likely to be arrested during traffic stop than White women