8-year-old Shy’Kemmia Pate disappeared in 1998. Her family still hopes for answers
Shy’Kemmia Pate went missing from her home in Georgia more than 25 years ago, when she was eight years old. Her family is still hoping for answers.
Black people disappearing, disregarded becoming ‘crisis’, what’s being done about it?
More leaders are now acknowledging the crisis of Blacks going missing and receiving little or no public attention. So California has passed into law the "Ebony Alert" system to help locate missing minorities who often go ignored.
California new laws for 2024: Alerts for missing Black children
Under a new state law, emergency notifications by law enforcement will be expanded to include “Ebony Alerts” for missing Black children and youths. Studies show African Americans are disproportionately on lists of the missing.
Two new missing alerts will go into effect in to California next year: What to know
Two new emergency notification systems will be coming to California in the new year, including a first-of-its-kind program entirely dedicated to help find missing Black youth and women.
Ebony Alert becomes law in 2024. Here’s what to know
On January 1, a New California law protecting Black youth will go into effect.
‘Ebony Alerts’ debut in January to draw attention to missing women and children of color
The California Highway Patrol and other agencies will soon add another tool to their belts to help locate missing people.
Lawmakers propose task force on missing, murdered African American women
A disproportionate share of Florida women and girls who go missing yearly are African American. Two state lawmakers now want to assemble a panel to investigate why, and how to address the problem.
As more children go missing in Ohio, advocates push for change
According to Attorney General David Yost's office, 15,335 children have gone missing in Ohio in 2023.
Austin woman missing for 47 years; nonprofit brings awareness to missing people of color
Jennifer Joyce Barton, 20, was last seen on May 16, 1976. According to officials, she went to the movies with a friend.
Advocates, lawmakers make final push for Governor’s approval of “missing BIPOC women task force”
A task force investigating missing BIPOC women and girls passed the legislature during the 2023 session, and still has a chance to be approved by Governor Hochul.