Black Women and Girls: 17 realities which make their life difficult

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Black women and/or girls:

* Made up more than 53% of all women stopped by the New York City police in 2013, reports the African American Policy Forum's Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia University Law School's groundbreaking report, "Say Her Name." Meanwhile, black residents as a whole make up 27% of the city's total population, according to the 2010 census.

* Face an outsized dual threat of sexual and police violence, according to a report by U.S. Department of Justice's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. More than 8% of reported police misconduct is for sexual assault, according to the CATO Institute.

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Source: African American Policy Forum

* Are criminalized early in school. For example, in New York City, black girls made up 28% of the student body population during the 2011-2012 school year, but were 90% of all girls expelled that year from the city's schools, according to the "Black Girls Matter" report by the African American Policy Forum. Similarly, black girls made up 35% of Boston's public school population that same year, but accounted for 63% of all girls expelled.