'Invisible No More' Examines Police Violence Against Minority Women

The names of black men and boys such as Eric Garner, Philando Castile and Tamir Rice, are often rallying cries during protests over alleged police misconduct. All three died during encounters with police and news about their deaths was a constant on social media.

For years, Andrea J. Ritchie, a police misconduct attorney, has worked to also bring attention to the names and experiences of black women such as Sandra Bland in Texas and Rekia Boyd in Chicago, who both died after violent encounters with police.

Ritchie's latest effort is a meticulously researched and often chilling book, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. In it she examines violent encounters between police and citizens from the perspective of black women, women of color, transgender women and others.

Interview Highlights

On whether news about volatile situations between police and women of color are increasingly becoming part of the mainstream conversation or if the book demands it should be

It's both and it's also that the resistance to police violence against black women and women of color should also be invisible no more. Post Ferguson (), young black women