The remains of a Black teen-ager who was killed by Philadelphia police in 1985 were treated as an anthropological specimen. How was her identity known and then forgotten?

Say Her Name is a social movement that seeks to raise awareness for black female victims of police brutality and anti-black violence in the United States. Black women are 17% more likely to be stopped by police and 1.5x more likely to be killed than their white counterparts. Say Her Name aims to change the public perception that victims of police brutality and anti-black violence are predominantly male by highlighting the gender-specific ways in which black women are disproportionately affected by fatal acts of racial injustice. In an effort to create a large social media presence alongside existing racial justice campaigns, such as #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackGirlsMatter , the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) coined the hashtag [#SayHerName](/relevant/new/SayHerName) in February 2015.