Ending the War on Black Women

Abolition for the People

Building a World Where Breonna Taylor Could Live

Victory will not be achieved through prosecutions, but through transforming the conditions of violence

Andrea J Ritchie

Published in

LEVEL

11 min readOct 27, 2020

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This article is part of Abolition for the People, a series brought to you by a partnership between Kaepernick Publishing and LEVEL, a Medium…

Andrea J Ritchie

Written by Andrea J Ritchie

Writer for

LEVEL

Andrea Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant survivor, author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women & coauthor of the AAPF #SayHerName report

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