Amy Yeboah, Ph.D. | Source | Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Howard University

We’re honoring Black women – the lives that have been lost to police brutality – but also the blind eye that America has to the injustices that face Black women. This being the celebration of independence, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, I’ll be talking about how these are not things Black women have been given the space to celebrate. Their justice is still being considered.