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Black and Missing Foundation Shines Spotlight on Missing Persons and Their Families
March 12, 2020
Derrica Wilson and her sister Natalie noticed what had become the norm for mainstream media when it comes to the plight of missing women and girls of color: there was little to no media coverage.
Relisha Rudd vanished 6 years ago. Here’s what she might look like now.
February 28, 2020
Six years after 8-year-old Relisha Rudd vanished in Washington, D.C., the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has released a new age-progression image for what she may look now at 14.
230,000 people of color reported missing in the U.S. These black women are doing something about it.
February 20, 2020
Hundreds of thousands of people of color are reported missing each year, and one D.C.-based nonprofit organization said the public normally does not hear about them.
Black kids go missing at a higher rate than white kids. Here’s why we don’t hear about them.
November 4, 2019
People might be less familiar with the story of Arianna Fitts, a 2-year-old who went missing in 2016 before her mother was found brutally murdered in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Her daughter went missing. Then the social media attacks began.
October 29, 2019
The alleged kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl — missing since Monday, Sept. 16 — from a predominantly Hispanic southern New Jersey suburb has brought an outpouring of support for her family in Bridgeton.
Black and Missing Inc.: missing black children are underrepresented in news
October 24, 2019
Three-year-old Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney was abducted from a birthday party on Oct. 13. Her body was found 10 days later in a landfill 17 miles away.