Why are so many Black women dying at the hands of their partners?

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Black women are murdered by intimate partners at two and a half times the rate of white women, a disparity the article frames as a public health crisis. April brought a cluster of cases: Cerina Fairfax, estranged wife of former Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax, was killed; Nancy Metayer Bowen, vice-mayor of Coral Springs, Florida, was allegedly murdered by her partner; and Shaneiqua Elkins survived a shooting by her husband that killed another person. The piece uses these high-profile examples to surface a systemic problem that intersects race, gender, and domestic violence.