As husbands murder the women they claim to love, we must confront this crisis for what it is: Femicide.
The killings of Cerlina Wanzer Fairfax in Virginia and Nancy Metayer Bowen in Florida are not isolated tragedies. They are part of a disturbing and deadly pattern: The murder of Black women by men who vowed to love and protect them.
Dr. Fairfax, a dentist and mother of two, was shot and killed in a murder-suicide by her husband, former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, a man entrusted with public leadership. Coral Springs Vice Mayor Bowen, a rising political figure and mother, was allegedly shot multiple times in her home by her husband, who later claimed he “couldn’t take it anymore.”…