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The New Initiative Uplifting the Stories of Black Survivors of Sexual Violence

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Glamour spoke with Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center and Monifa Bandele, chief operating officer of TIME’S UP Foundation, about the origins of the initiative, how the survivor justice movement has failed Black survivors, and what we can all do to ensure they’ll know a justice they deserve.How did this initiative come to be?Fatima Goss Graves: You know sometimes when Black women gather, exciting things happen and I think this is one of those examples.

It’s probably not a surprise to say that Black women have been leaders in the survivor justice movement over the decades, but we're acutely aware that our stories are very rarely told and when they are told, they aren't given the dignity and respect they.

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