missing women

Created in 2018, the Our Black Girls website centers the stories of missing Black girls and women.

National

Tens Of Thousands Of Black Women Vanish Each Year. This Website Tells Their Stories

10:55am September 24, 2021

by Sharon Pruitt-Young

Erika Marie Rivers created the Our Black Girls website to shine a light on Black girls and women who have gone missing or were murdered, a demographic that gets disproportionately less media coverage.

A memorial to missing and murdered Indigenous women is set up in St. Paul, Minn.

National

Media Fascination With The Petito Mystery Looks Like Racism To Some Native Americans

4:02pm September 21, 2021

by Kamila Kudelska

Media coverage around the death of 22-year-old Gabrielle Petito looks racist to those who note that murders and disappearances of Native Americans are mostly ignored.

Carolyn DeFord poses with the missing persons poster for her mother, Leona Kinsey, who went missing in October 1999.

Arts

'It Surfaces With The Same Rawness': A Daughter Remembers Her Mother's Disappearance

5:10am March 29, 2019

Carolyn DeFord, a member of the Puyallup tribe, was 26 when her mother suddenly vanished. At StoryCorps, she remembers what life has been like having never learned what happened.