Derrica Wilson is the CEO of the Black and Missing Foundation, a nonprofit organization with the mission to bring awareness to missing persons of color; provide vital resources and tools to missing person’s families and friends and to educate the minority community on personal safety.

Families of missing people of color say their stories are just as important as the Gabby Petito case, and they want more media attention.

In 2020, 543,018 individuals were reported missing, nearly 40% people of color. What are their names? We've been here before: 'Missing white woman syndrome.'

The disappearance of Gabby Petito has been widely covered by national media in recent weeks, and efforts to find the missing 22-year-old have spurred protests outside her fiancé Brian Laundrie's Florida home as well as thousands of posts on social media calling for justice.

In Missing Persons Cases. 40% of them are people of color, but that's not what we usually see represented in media coverage of the missing.