Miami march to focus on the issues of black and immigrant women

A March for Black Women has been planned for Miami on September 30. The march organized by female activists in Miami is to bring awareness to issues affecting minority women.

According to the Miami Herald, the march is to coincide with the March for Racial Justice this also planned for September 30 in Washington DC.

The Miami March is to begin in front of the former women ’s detention center at 1401 NW Seventh Ave., in Overtown, Miami-Dade County, It’s scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m.

Focus on several issues affecting black women

The organizers held a news conference last week in Miami, in which they emphasized the purpose of the march is to draw attention to the social issues affecting black women whose voices are not being heard. The organizers said the prevailing issues to which attention is being brawn to by the planned march include lack of access to sexual and reproductive healthcare,  inequality in wages and low wages for women, lack of affordable housing and proper representation in the justice system, and the high rate of incarceration for black men and women.

One of the organizers, Valencia Gunder of Liberty City from the activist group New Florida Majority said for too long balck women have been left out of the conversation related to these issues and that cannot be allowed any longer. She said it s necessary to remobe the perception that if someone is a woman, poor and bkack that person has three strikes against them. She said, poor, black women are “also voters and pay taxes.”

Miami-Dade Public School board member to join march

At the press conference Miami-Dade County Public Schools board member, Dorothy Bendross-Mindigall said she plans to join the march on behalf of all women, especially black women and girls. The school board member said she has been to too many funerals of kids whose skin color and zip codes prevent them from living in a safe have,

Other organizations that are involved in the planning f the march include the Florida Immigrant Coalition and the Power U Center for Social Change, a group led by teenagers.