Tens Of Thousands Of Black Women Vanish Each Year. This Website Tells Their Stories
Tens of thousands of Black girls and women go missing every year. Last year, that figure was nearly 100,000. Yet their cases hardly ever grab national headlines.
A journalist in California is doing what she can to try to change that, by telling as many of their stories as she can — and hopefully helping them get the justice they deserve.
Our Black Girls centers on the often-untold stories of Black girls and women who have gone missing or, in some cases, were found dead under mysterious circumstances. Launched by journalist and activist Erika Marie Rivers in 2018, the website is a one-woman show: Rivers spends her nights combing missing persons databases, archived news footage, old articles and whatever other information she can find to piece together these stories. And she does it all after her day job.
Rivers, 39, has worked in entertainment journalism for more than a decade. For her regular job at a music news website, she works an evening shift from 4 p.m. to midnight — but her nights don't end there. After she finishes her first job, she dives into her second, often working on stories for Our Black Girls well into the night.
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1040048967/missing-black-women-girls-left-out-media-ignored
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I need to add something to this. In Knoxville, TN, Desheena Kyle has been missing for 3+ months. Her off-again, on-again boyfriend is in jail and has been named a person of interest but has not been charged. In my daughter's hometown of Morristown, TN, Inesha Haygood disappeared about 3 years ago. Continued searches, in which my son-inlaw participated, found nothing. Her remains were finally found in an adjacent county (not in an area searched) about 6 months ago. No one has been charged. Those are two that I know about, out of many.
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S/he seems to be agreeing with you Re: the attention to the missing white female vs the media ignoring missing women of color
as I felt the story was a positive one and s/he chose to rant about the missing white female thing instead.
Whatever.
