In America, Black Lives have always been inDanger. To be Black in America can be taxing, tiring, terrifying, and constant. And to be Black AND a woman in America adds on top of that a life that is always exposed to varying levels of discrimination, racism, sexism, and prejudice, and, too often, all at the same time. Black women are already the most marginalised, oppressed, violated and lowest paid of all groups. And, to top it off, moulds have been crafted by patriarchy and society to define “ acceptable” behaviors, characteristics and appearances. Black women have always been at the forefront of social justice and change, yet rarely receive the accolades and recognition they deserve. Although their contributions were sometimes overlooked in both the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements, their power, courage, and endurance cannot be overstated. Black women have a distinctive standpoint from which to understand the intersection of race and gender and their unique experience of oppression. We live in a patriarchal society, which means men’s, including Black men’s, experiences and stories are privileged. We know about police killings of George Floyd, Philando Castile, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice, but know very little about the deaths of Alberta Spruill, Shantel Davis, Shelly Frey, Kayla Moore, Kyam Livingston, Miriam Carey and Eleanor Bumpurs, who all were killed by police or died in their custody. Reckoning with how Black women are vulnerable, exposed, and tired in ways Black men could never be, and white men could never imagine, is a step toward upending implicit and explicit bias, discrimination, structural and institutional racism.