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DID YOU KNOW

African-American women experience intimate partner violence at rates 35% higher than their White counterparts and 2.5 times the rate of men and other races
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African Americans account for a disproportionate number of intimate partner homicides. In 2005, African American accounted for almost 1/3 of the intimate partner homicides in this country
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Domestic violence affects all Americans, regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic status. However, this threat has disproportionately dire consequences for African-American women.

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STEERING COMMITTEE

	Karma A. Cottman Executive Director, DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Washington, DC
	Dr. Linner Ward Griffin, Ed.D., ACSW, LCSW Professor, School of Social Work & Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs East Carolina University Greenville, North Carolina
	Dr. Robert L. Hampton Professor, Department of Sociology Tennessee State University Nashville, TN
	Ms. Shelia Hankins, B.S. Project Director Department of Human Services Michigan Domestic Violence Prevention & treatment Board State of Michigan
	Dr. Esther J. Jenkins Professor of Psychology at Chicago State University
	Dr. Beth E. Richie Director, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy Professor, Criminology, Law and Justice Professor, African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL
	Johnny Rice, II, M.S Director, Senior Program Associate, Supervised Visitation Initiative, VERA Institute of Justice, Center on Victimization & Safety, Washington, DC
	Ms. Joyce N. Thomas President and Co-founder of the Center for Child Protection and Family Support in Washington, DC
	Ms. Antonia A. Vann, CDVC CEO, Asha Family Services, Inc., (ASHA)
	Dr. Oliver J. Williams Executive Director of the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community and a Professor in the School of Social Work, at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul