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Media, police pay less attention to missing Black people. HBO’s new doc wants to change that.
November 23, 2021
The flood of news coverage that followed Gabby Petito's disappearance last summer surprised even her own father.
Stop Assuming This About Missing People of Color
November 23, 2021
If we asked you to name a missing white woman, someone whose name you’ve seen in a national news headline sometime in the last 20 years, could you? You could: Gabby Petito, Natalee Holloway, Chandra Levy, Laci Peterson, Elizabeth Smart, Lori Hacking, Jennifer Wilbanks — household names forever etched in our memories, right? Now, think of the name of at least one missing person of color.
HBO docuseries to premiere featuring Upstate woman
November 23, 2021
An HBO docuseries is telling the story of an Upstate woman who was murdered almost 20 years ago.
DC’s Black and Missing Foundation focus of new HBO documentary
November 23, 2021
Thousands of families in the U.S. are currently living a nightmare. Their loved ones are missing, and they are desperate to bring media and police attention to their cases.
New effort brings a voice to struggles families of missing Black persons can face getting help
November 22, 2021
A documentary series follows the work of the Black and Missing Foundation which has been sounding the alarm for years about bias and stereotypes in Black missing persons cases.
Why Cases of Missing Black People Remain Unsolved For So Long
November 21, 2021
Every year, tens of thousands of women and girls disappear in the U.S. Each disappearance is a tragedy, but for missing Black people, their cases remain unsolved four times longer than those of white people.