The Black And Missing Foundation Aims To Find People Of Color Who've Disappeared: ...What began as a conversation between Wilson, a former police officer with a decade of work in law enforcement, and Natalie Wilson, her sister-in-law and a public relations professional, about the disparity in coverage between the Huston case and the Hollaway investigation eventually evolved into formation of the Black and Missing Foundation.
According to FBI statistics, 678,860 people in the United States were reported missing last year. Among those, about 40 percent, or 270,680 individuals, were people of color. But with scant media attention yet plenty of stereotypes and other presumptions, this sector of the missing population has largely gone under the radar, Derrica Wilson said.
“A lot of people in our community are unaware that this is a big issue because when we turn on the television, we don’t see ourselves or people that look like us,” she added. Often local law enforcement staff assume that missing young black people are runaways, she said.
