Perspective: She’s spent years tracking the killings of Black women and girls. Now, she’s planning a D.C. march.
There you will find the barrette-framed face of Aziya Matthews, a 3-year-old who was murdered on Dec. 20.
Page is a 52-year-old nurse who has been working in the health-care industry since she was 20 years old. She is also a Black mother of four daughters and someone who noticed about seven years ago that Black women and girls seemed to be dying at the hands of others at an “unacceptable rate.”“Not that any rate is acceptable,” she tells me on a recent evening. “But it was such a high rate I couldn’t understand why nothing was being said or done about it.
Frustrated, Page could have vented through a tweet and moved on. She decided instead to collect her own data.She started scouring police websites, media homepages and online sites that track homicides for the names and photos of Black women and girls.She started trying to get people to take notice of an issue she saw as a crisis, and she hasn’t stopped doing that.
Page has done most of her advocacy work from Arkansas, where she lives. Now, she plans to take the issue to the nation’s capital. She is organizing a march that will occur in D.C. later this year.“D.C. is the hub of political activity in America,” she says. “D.C. is where people go to discuss issues in America.
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