A new report shows that nearly 100,000 black women and women went missing last year and little is being done to locate them.
Today, a Californian journalist seeks to tell his stories.
Journalist and activist Erika Marie Rivers presented the website Our Black Girls, which tells the many unskned stories of missing or mysteriously discovered black women.
“The women in those stories I’m talking about are more than the flagship clip of the Ten Hours newspaper,” Rivers writes on her website. “These are and were our sisters, many of whom suffered deception and / or violence. We shouldn’t sweep their stories under the rug and move on to the next hot topic. We want what they went through to replace the behavior patterns. “
However, Rivers’ efforts require genuine commitment. She spends her evenings rummaging through databases of missing people and old news articles for information.
Rivers, 39, has worked in entertainment journalism for more than a decade, but she is passionate about these paintings of locating women and women who lack, which she says can be her or anyone else.
Since launching the online page about 3 years ago, Rivers says he has published an article almost every day. Many of the stories involve women and women walking the streets and eventually disappearing.
“And I know there are a lot of stories like that about women and women who look like me, so why don’t I see them as much as I see everything else?banner when I’m the one who’s passionate about it,” he told NPR.
NPR reports that an alarming rate of black women has disappeared, and yet their stories are not getting the attention they deserve in media politics about white women and women who have disappeared.
According to the National Criminal Information Center, in 2020, of the 268,884 women and women who lacked, 90,333 were black.
However, black women and women make up about 15% of the U. S. female population. According to census data.