A TV show that presents unfiltered conversations about Blacks recently highlighted the “epidemic of missing Black women and girls” in a riveting discussion.
The latest episode “REVOLT Black News Weekly” got to the bottom of the issue in an explosive special edition titled “Dangerous Black girl magic: Now you see her, now you don’t”.
The discussions were held during REVOLT WORLD and hosted by global news anchor Mara S. Campo. Speaking to survivors and activists, “RBN” sought to not only spotlight the issue but try to offer up solutions as well.
In 2022, almost 100,000 Black women and girls reportedly vanished without a trace. And just like the media, the police also do not seem to take these cases and the numbers tied to them seriously.
Some of the consequences of that neglect include Black women making up 40 percent of sex trafficking survivors, despite being just 14 percent of the overall female population. But the most egregious example may be serial killer Samuel Little, who murdered 93 people and surely got away with it for so long because his victims were mostly Black and brown women.
Many people became more keenly aware of the problem of Black girls and women vanishing after the Carlee Russell case gripped the nation. The young Black woman was said to have been kidnapped after trying to assist a toddler she allegedly spotted walking on the side of a road. Finally, a Black woman going missing got the media attention it deserved. Unfortunately, her story turned out to be a lie.
However, that one case does not negate the reality that the issue of missing Black women has become routine with many never being found. What the mainstream media does always seem to find energy for is white women and girls.
