Expressing support for the designation of December 16, 2024, as the "National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls".

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] [Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H. Res. 1593 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 1593 Expressing support for the designation of December 16, 2024, as the ``National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls''. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 21, 2024 Ms. Omar (for herself and Mr. Burchett) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ RESOLUTION Expressing support for the designation of December 16, 2024, as the ``National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls''. Whereas, according to the National Crime Information Center, in 2023, of the 280,031 girls and women reported missing, 103,079, or nearly 37 percent, were Black, while Black girls and women make up only 15 percent of the female population in the United States; Whereas Black women have the highest rates of death due to homicide among women, and these murders are statistically shown to be most often …