Family of Missing Black Woman and Advocates Say the Media’s Fascination with Young, Blond’ Missing Women Is Drowning Out the Cries for Disappeared Black People
Thousands of Black women and men are reported missing each year, yet their names often don’t get the mainstream attention as white missing people receive. That state of affairs is frustrating for advocates and relatives of the missing African-Americans such as James Rushing, whose sister, Deidre Reid, 41, has been missing since Sept. 3. “What…
