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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.
wryter2000
(46,032 posts)How is one murder national news? How many other abused women are killed by their abusers every year? Do they all get headlines?
jimfields33
(15,763 posts)Perhaps others should give it a try. Having a website is nice, but how many go there daily compared to Instagram and Facebook or even Tic Tok?
Jilly_in_VA
(9,963 posts)about intimate partner violence the other day. You apparently chose not to post on that. Why do you feel the need to hijack this thread about the GOOD WORK someone is doing on behalf of missing Black women and girls to rant about missing blonde women?
leftstreet
(36,103 posts)yourself?
Jilly_in_VA
(9,963 posts)That post was meant to be addressed directly to wryter2000 and somehow wound up on its own. That happens now and then. I'm a little prickly on this subject because the first thread I posted got hijacked. I then posted a thread about intimate partner violence and requested it NOT be hijacked and somebody tried to hijack it anyway but at least they got shot down. How I post this and right away someone starts talking about "missing white women" again and I'm about OVER IT.
leftstreet
(36,103 posts)S/he seems to be agreeing with you Re: the attention to the missing white female vs the media ignoring missing women of color
Jilly_in_VA
(9,963 posts)as I felt the story was a positive one and s/he chose to rant about the missing white female thing instead.
Whatever.
leftstreet
(36,103 posts)wryter2000
(46,032 posts)But I guess I have to follow their threads to make sure I don't miss one. And then, I'll have to be sure I post exactly what they want me to.
OTOH, I can put the person on ignore.
wryter2000
(46,032 posts)I missed yours. And I don't see how pointing out that other murders go ignored is hijacking the thread. You could use a thicker skin.
Jilly_in_VA
(9,963 posts)I'm feeling a little prickly because of prior threads on the subject being hijacked, one in an extremely misogynistic way. I apologize if it bothered you, but your song has been sung several times on those threads.
maxsolomon
(33,284 posts)At 1st glance, that's what I thought it meant.