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9:05 PM EDT on Mar 22, 2023

Nearly half of Black women in the U.S. have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime, but Black girls and women are more than likely than white women and girls to be criminalized for defending themselves during sexual violence. (Stephen Zenner/Getty Images)

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