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

Created in 2018, the Our Black Girls website centers the stories of missing Black girls and women. ourblackgirls.com/Screenshot by NPR hide caption

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

September 24, 2021 • 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.

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

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

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September 21, 2021 • 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.

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

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

Carolyn DeFord poses with the missing persons poster for her mother, Leona Kinsey, who went missing in October 1999. Dupe Oyebolu/StoryCorps hide caption

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

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.

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

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Neighbor In Cleveland: 'I Thought This Girl Was Dead!'

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Neighbor In Cleveland: 'I Thought This Girl Was Dead!'

May 7, 2013 • Charles Ramsey says he had no clue that three young women who had been missing for years were inside a home in Cleveland. He thought Amanda Berry, whose cries led him to the porch, had died long ago. Ramsey tells a vivid story. Watch the video.

Cry For Help Led To Freedom For Missing Women In Cleveland

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Cry For Help Led To Freedom For Missing Women In Cleveland

May 7, 2013 • Neighbors heard a woman desperately shouting for help from inside a home. After a man helped her get out, authorities discovered that Amanda Berry and two other young women who had been missing for between 9 and 11 years had been inside the house. Three men have been arrested.