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How Two Women are Helping Black Families Find Their Missing Relatives
September 22, 2021
After finding that nearly 30 percent of missing persons in the United States are people of color, Derrica and Natalie Wilson began working to bring more national attention to their cases.
It’s OK to want justice for Gabby Petito and acknowledge the thousands still missing. We should.
September 22, 2021
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.'
Families of Missing Black Girls Frustrated, Not Surprised by Attention Drawn to Gabby Petito
September 22, 2021
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.
Gabby Petito case example of ‘missing white woman syndrome,’ experts say
September 22, 2021
In the two weeks since Gabby Petito went missing while on a cross-country trip with her boyfriend, her story has gained national attention.
Critics claim ‘missing white woman syndrome’ has overshadowed these missing persons cases
September 21, 2021
Most disappearance cases involving people of color quickly fall off the national radar, if they ever even make it that far — a racist double standard considering the current Gabby Petito saga, critics claim.
Podcast: Colorblind: Race Across Generations – Black and Missing
August 13, 2021
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.