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*Domestic violence against women of color, specifically Black women, has been a dilemma that has plagued the Black community for decades, perhaps centuries. According to The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) a non-partisan, non-profit research think tank, as of 2017, more than four in ten Black women experience physical violence from an intimate partner during their lifetimes.
Additionally, according to IWPR, Black women also experience significantly higher rates of psychological abuse- including humiliation, insults, name-calling, and coercive control- than all women overall. Sexual violence also affects Black women at high rates- more than 20 percent of Black women are raped during their lifetimes- a higher share than among all women overall.
A 2015 Violence Policy Center study finds, according to IWPR, that Black women face a particularly high risk of being killed at the hands of a man- two and a half times more likely to be murdered by men than their White counterparts. And the most disturbing fact about the study- more than nine in ten Black female victims knew their killers.
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