I was doing some research with the National Crime Information Center, and some of these statistics had my head reeling. Do you realize that in 2020, 268,884 girls and women went missing in the US? Over 90,000 of them were Black. I was taken aback at this percentage— in fact I am still having a hard time coming to grips with this fact, as this was two years ago. How many more have gone missing?
During my research, I came across a website, Our Black Girls, which is dedicated to getting the word ou...
Published on March 28, 2022 07:00