Alexandria Ellis, a student attending Boston's Emerson College in 2016, delivered a crushing Tedx Talk on the disturbing rate of missing Black girls and women and the mishandling of their cases. The Black and Missing Foundation reports that in 2020, people of color represented 40% of missing persons cases. In the past week, incessant coverage of the disappearance-turned-homicide of 22-year-old Gabrielle Petito has reaffirmed the public's neglect of missing people of color. Joy Reid cited Gwen Ifill to describe the phenomenon earlier this week as "missing white woman syndrome." "The term coined by the late and great Gwen Ifill to describe the media and public fascination with missing white women like Laci Peterson or Natalee Holloway while ignoring cases involving of people of color,” the MSNBC host said during a recent episode of The ReidOut . For years, Chicago's treatment of missing and homicide cases which involve Black women and girls has been under scrutiny. In Wyoming,...
