1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Britanny Clardy Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Black women and girls are uniquely vulnerable and too easily erased from public discussions about missing and murdered people. (2) According to the National Crime Information Center, in 2020, of the 268,884 girls and women reported missing, 90,333, or nearly 34 percent, were Black, while Black girls and women make up only 15 percent of the female population in the United States. (3) Nationally, cases involving Black girls and women stay open four times longer than other cases on average, as reported by Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. (4) Nationally, Black women have the highest rates of death due to homicide among women (4.4. per 100,000 compared to 1.5 per 100,000 for White women) and statistically shown these murders are most often committed by an intimate partner or someone the victim knows. (5) Understanding the roots of how and why Black women and girls are not as well protected from violence as White women and girls requires attention to both historical and present-day manifestations of interlocking systems of oppression, such as racism and sexism. (6) Effective research regarding the racial inequities surrounding violence against women and girls should— (A) involve local, relevant community engaged research expertise in the area; (B) seek to center community members as essential experts through interviews and focus groups with Black women and girls who have lived experience within the topic; (C) include the use of mixed methods approaches to evaluate, monitor, and communicate data with the broader impacted communities