Reporting on the extremist misogynoir attacks faced by Black women elected as prosecutors, Christina Carrega highlights our groundbreaking research on prosecutor demographics.
Women of color have represented well below 2% of the prosecutorial population for as long as the Reflective Democracy Campaign has kept track of these figures. Black women have broken glass ceilings by becoming the first to earn those titles with each election victory. But compared to the over 1,600 white men who have consistently led prosecutor offices, Black women’s historic gains are abysmal.
