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Double Standard: Missing Black Women Still Get Less Media Than Whites
by Jan Ransom
NNPA Special Correspondent
Originally posted 4/1/2009
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Average looking men, women and children from a variety of economic, social and ethnic backgrounds made up the more than 105,000 active missing persons in America last year, according to the National Crime Information Center. However, national media operations often fail to present what is in fact a very diverse missing persons population – African-Americans. And some observers believe race is the factor.
“There is a culture in America that tends to sympathize with the blond White woman instead of the braided black woman,†said Ernie Suggs, vice president of print for the National Association of Black Journalists. “There has always been a certain level of interest, a certain fascination with White missing persons … Americans identify with who they want to be.â€
For example, Latasha Norman, a 20-year-old, Jackson State University honor student from the Mississippi Delta city of Greenville, had been missing for more than two weeks when her body was found on Nov. 29, 2007, in a wooded area in Jackson. Norman’s boyfriend, Stanley Cole, 24, was charged with her murder. Her story received little national coverage and was quickly glossed over by CNN.
Thousands of miles away, the disappearance of Stacey Peterson, a 23-year-old, mother of two from Bolingbrook Ill., whose police officer husband is a primary suspect in her Oct. 28, 2007, received national media attention for weeks. Her case was updated regularly on CNN, MSNBC and other major news stations in great detail. Peterson’s story was featured in a number of major newspapers including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and New York Newsday.
Stacey Peterson nearly became a household name, producing 723,000 results on Google, a world-wide web search engine. Norman’s name produced 177,000 results.
What’s the difference between the two women?
Race is the difference, according to Jackson Police Chief Malcolm McMillin, who is White.
''As far as the interest by the national media in the story, I think race probably had an impact,'' the police chief said in a story by David Schoetz, posted on ABCnews.go.com while Norman was still missing.
''It's a small college in the South. It's the daughter of simple people who maybe are not important outside of their circle, and maybe we don't attach the same importance to them that we do for other people,'' said McMillin in the article.
According to FBI statistics, in 2007, a total of 814,967 missing person records were entered into the National Crime Information Center’s Missing Person File. Over 25 percent of those missing are African-Americans and they are only 12 percent of the U.S. population. Whites make-up 66 percent of the U.S. population and account for nearly 63 percent of the missing persons. Others include Latinos.“There is a whole lot of brown and Black people (missing),†said Rebkah Howard, partner and founder of Image Pro, a public relations marketing firm, in Miami.
In May 2004, Howard’s niece, Tamika Huston, then 24, disappeared from Spartanburg, S.C. A year later her case received national media attention, not as the story of a missing person but a missing person who was ignored by mainstream media because of her race. Huston was missing for over a year.
Huston and her boyfriend, Christopher Hampton, 25, were arguing about money when Hampton threw a hot iron at Huston hitting her in the head. He panicked after killing her and drove around with her body for hours until he buried her in a wooded area in Duncan, S.C., marking the spot with a cross made from tree branches, he told the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg.
In August 2005, Hampton was charged with Huston’s murder.
Media outlets such as “America’s Most Wanted†helped authorities by airing Huston’s story in March 2005. After the broadcast, an anonymous tipster provided Spartanburg officers with the essential details needed to solve the case.
“Media serves two purposes,†Howard said in an interview. “Not only for attention and new information, but it puts pressure on law enforcement in addition to putting pressure on the perpetrator.â€
The color within the missing persons population is often overlooked because “national networks in particular, have found a formula for producing miniature soap operas,†said Howard, citing the 2002 Laci Peterson case involving a missing White, pregnant 27-year old, who was killed by her husband.
Howard speculates that stories involving White females raise ratings for the networks.
“Media drives the story. There are a lot of juicy tidbits but no one knows that because the media didn’t put the story in the spotlight,†Howard said.
Early media attention is crucial, Howard says.
Sgt. Noel Leader agrees. “It sounds a public alarm,†says the police retiree and co-founder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care. That’s a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based organization, founded in 1995 to serve as a voice for the Black community in the justice system.
Around the time Huston’s story was acknowledged by the media, Natalie Holloway, 18, a White female, vanished during her trip to Aruba in May 2005. Her story immediately took over local and national news stations.
“You would see another family going through the same pain, and you can’t fault them,†Howard said. “It just makes you so angry. Why do they (missing White females ) get around-the-world coverage? What about those other women?â€
Howard said that in her attempts to reach out, she found that she was being strung along by editors and producers.
The issue, Suggs and Leader agree, has to do with the lack of diversity in the newsroom. “We need to develop our own media outlets. Stop supporting those that don’t support the things that are important to us,†Leader says.
According to the Radio-Television News Directors' 2007 annual study of diversity, Blacks represent 9.5 percent of those in TV newsrooms and are 4.2 percent of TV news directors.
Leader advocates more media ownership among African-Americans as another solution.
Meanwhile, families of missing persons must deal with other issues besides the lack of media attention.
Leader advises that families must constantly ask questions regarding the objectives and strategies as well as continue to check up on the status of cases with officers. “Don’t be intimidated,†he said.
As a result of Howard’s efforts, NBC producer Josh Mingelwoods committed to the 2005 story that posed the question why Holloway became a household name and Huston did not. USA Today reporter Mark Memmott also wrote an article on the case.
Howard now uses her experiences and expertise to help others. She and her family are launching the Tamika Huston Foundation for the Missing, which will assist and support families, particularly minorities with the process associated with finding and solving the cases of missing loved ones.
The Foundation Web site, www.TamikaHuston.com, is under construction. Howard says it will provide media relations and teach families how to interact with law enforcement in missing persons cases.
The foundation was launched on Dec. 11, Howard said. “That would have been Tamika’s 28th birthday.â€
Double Standard: Missing Black Women Still Get Less Media Than Whites
by Jan Ransom
NNPA Special Correspondent
Originally posted 4/1/2009
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Average looking men, women and children from a variety of economic, social and ethnic backgrounds made up the more than 105,000 active missing persons in America last year, according to the National Crime Information Center. However, national media operations often fail to present what is in fact a very diverse missing persons population – African-Americans. And some observers believe race is the factor.
“There is a culture in America that tends to sympathize with the blond White woman instead of the braided black woman,†said Ernie Suggs, vice president of print for the National Association of Black Journalists. “There has always been a certain level of interest, a certain fascination with White missing persons … Americans identify with who they want to be.â€
For example, Latasha Norman, a 20-year-old, Jackson State University honor student from the Mississippi Delta city of Greenville, had been missing for more than two weeks when her body was found on Nov. 29, 2007, in a wooded area in Jackson. Norman’s boyfriend, Stanley Cole, 24, was charged with her murder. Her story received little national coverage and was quickly glossed over by CNN.
Thousands of miles away, the disappearance of Stacey Peterson, a 23-year-old, mother of two from Bolingbrook Ill., whose police officer husband is a primary suspect in her Oct. 28, 2007, received national media attention for weeks. Her case was updated regularly on CNN, MSNBC and other major news stations in great detail. Peterson’s story was featured in a number of major newspapers including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and New York Newsday.
Stacey Peterson nearly became a household name, producing 723,000 results on Google, a world-wide web search engine. Norman’s name produced 177,000 results.
What’s the difference between the two women?
Race is the difference, according to Jackson Police Chief Malcolm McMillin, who is White.
''As far as the interest by the national media in the story, I think race probably had an impact,'' the police chief said in a story by David Schoetz, posted on ABCnews.go.com while Norman was still missing.
''It's a small college in the South. It's the daughter of simple people who maybe are not important outside of their circle, and maybe we don't attach the same importance to them that we do for other people,'' said McMillin in the article.
According to FBI statistics, in 2007, a total of 814,967 missing person records were entered into the National Crime Information Center’s Missing Person File. Over 25 percent of those missing are African-Americans and they are only 12 percent of the U.S. population. Whites make-up 66 percent of the U.S. population and account for nearly 63 percent of the missing persons. Others include Latinos.“There is a whole lot of brown and Black people (missing),†said Rebkah Howard, partner and founder of Image Pro, a public relations marketing firm, in Miami.
In May 2004, Howard’s niece, Tamika Huston, then 24, disappeared from Spartanburg, S.C. A year later her case received national media attention, not as the story of a missing person but a missing person who was ignored by mainstream media because of her race. Huston was missing for over a year.
Huston and her boyfriend, Christopher Hampton, 25, were arguing about money when Hampton threw a hot iron at Huston hitting her in the head. He panicked after killing her and drove around with her body for hours until he buried her in a wooded area in Duncan, S.C., marking the spot with a cross made from tree branches, he told the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg.
In August 2005, Hampton was charged with Huston’s murder.
Media outlets such as “America’s Most Wanted†helped authorities by airing Huston’s story in March 2005. After the broadcast, an anonymous tipster provided Spartanburg officers with the essential details needed to solve the case.
“Media serves two purposes,†Howard said in an interview. “Not only for attention and new information, but it puts pressure on law enforcement in addition to putting pressure on the perpetrator.â€
The color within the missing persons population is often overlooked because “national networks in particular, have found a formula for producing miniature soap operas,†said Howard, citing the 2002 Laci Peterson case involving a missing White, pregnant 27-year old, who was killed by her husband.
Howard speculates that stories involving White females raise ratings for the networks.
“Media drives the story. There are a lot of juicy tidbits but no one knows that because the media didn’t put the story in the spotlight,†Howard said.
Early media attention is crucial, Howard says.
Sgt. Noel Leader agrees. “It sounds a public alarm,†says the police retiree and co-founder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care. That’s a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based organization, founded in 1995 to serve as a voice for the Black community in the justice system.
Around the time Huston’s story was acknowledged by the media, Natalie Holloway, 18, a White female, vanished during her trip to Aruba in May 2005. Her story immediately took over local and national news stations.
“You would see another family going through the same pain, and you can’t fault them,†Howard said. “It just makes you so angry. Why do they (missing White females ) get around-the-world coverage? What about those other women?â€
Howard said that in her attempts to reach out, she found that she was being strung along by editors and producers.
The issue, Suggs and Leader agree, has to do with the lack of diversity in the newsroom. “We need to develop our own media outlets. Stop supporting those that don’t support the things that are important to us,†Leader says.
According to the Radio-Television News Directors' 2007 annual study of diversity, Blacks represent 9.5 percent of those in TV newsrooms and are 4.2 percent of TV news directors.
Leader advocates more media ownership among African-Americans as another solution.
Meanwhile, families of missing persons must deal with other issues besides the lack of media attention.
Leader advises that families must constantly ask questions regarding the objectives and strategies as well as continue to check up on the status of cases with officers. “Don’t be intimidated,†he said.
As a result of Howard’s efforts, NBC producer Josh Mingelwoods committed to the 2005 story that posed the question why Holloway became a household name and Huston did not. USA Today reporter Mark Memmott also wrote an article on the case.
Howard now uses her experiences and expertise to help others. She and her family are launching the Tamika Huston Foundation for the Missing, which will assist and support families, particularly minorities with the process associated with finding and solving the cases of missing loved ones.
The Foundation Web site, www.TamikaHuston.com, is under construction. Howard says it will provide media relations and teach families how to interact with law enforcement in missing persons cases.
The foundation was launched on Dec. 11, Howard said. “That would have been Tamika’s 28th birthday.â€
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THV Insider: Missing Persons Reports
THV must hear from law enforcement before airing missing persons reports
In tonight's THV Insider, when and why we get involved when it comes to a missing person or child.
Each week, we get emails, phone calls, and flyers from viewers asking us to put a missing loved one's picture on our air.
Most of the time, we are unable to do this, and we are often asked why.
We simply cannot do this because not all missing persons are in danger. Otherwise, all we would have on our air is missing people.
THV's policy is: we wait to hear from law enforcement.
Police must confirm there is an active investigation, that they are actively looking for the person, and that they believe that person to be in danger before we will air the story.
"It has to go through the proper channels with the authorities," says THV Executive Producer Michelle Chism. "And what happens is the family would need to contact police to file a missing persons report. Once that happens and the appropriate amount of time has passed, police will ask us to get involved."
In the case of children, we must take extreme care in terms of what we report, since we get a lot of calls where it is simply a custody battle.
But when a child is in danger -- we will report it.
"Amber alerts must come from Arkansas State Police," says Chism. "When they issue those, we get the information on immediately. But we cannot take calls from parents and put that information on. Again, it has to go through proper channels, and it begins with Arkansas State Police"
Little Rock police say the department takes about and 5 to 6 missing persons reports per month and about 30 to 40 reports each month of runaways. Only in cases where the person is believed to be in danger do officers notify the news media.
When THV is notified by police, we will run the person's name and photo.
THV Insider: Missing Persons Reports
THV must hear from law enforcement before airing missing persons reports
In tonight's THV Insider, when and why we get involved when it comes to a missing person or child.
Each week, we get emails, phone calls, and flyers from viewers asking us to put a missing loved one's picture on our air.
Most of the time, we are unable to do this, and we are often asked why.
We simply cannot do this because not all missing persons are in danger. Otherwise, all we would have on our air is missing people.
THV's policy is: we wait to hear from law enforcement.
Police must confirm there is an active investigation, that they are actively looking for the person, and that they believe that person to be in danger before we will air the story.
"It has to go through the proper channels with the authorities," says THV Executive Producer Michelle Chism. "And what happens is the family would need to contact police to file a missing persons report. Once that happens and the appropriate amount of time has passed, police will ask us to get involved."
In the case of children, we must take extreme care in terms of what we report, since we get a lot of calls where it is simply a custody battle.
But when a child is in danger -- we will report it.
"Amber alerts must come from Arkansas State Police," says Chism. "When they issue those, we get the information on immediately. But we cannot take calls from parents and put that information on. Again, it has to go through proper channels, and it begins with Arkansas State Police"
Little Rock police say the department takes about and 5 to 6 missing persons reports per month and about 30 to 40 reports each month of runaways. Only in cases where the person is believed to be in danger do officers notify the news media.
When THV is notified by police, we will run the person's name and photo.
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Do Missing Black Women Get The Same Media Coverage As Missing White Women?
Eric L. Wesson
CALL Staff Writer
(This is part three of a three-part series on racism in the media and how the black community is viewed and portrayed through the eyes of the mainstream media.)
If you were dropped onto this planet you might find it strange that the only people who appear to be missing are young white women.
Missing White Woman Syndrome (MWWS) is the term used for the disproportionately greater degree of coverage in television, radio, and print news reporting of a missing person case involving a young, attractive, middle or upper middle class white woman, compared with cases concerning a missing black women, or missing persons of other races, sex or classes.
The essential features of a missing person said to give rise to MWWS are young, pretty white females, usually blonde, with blue eyes, green eyes or brown eyes and can actually be in any social economic status.
Those features are said to provoke discrimination in the reporting as news of the disappearance of a young white woman, and increases public interest in her disappearance.
A working class black woman or an older black woman is less likely to receive local news coverage especially, if they are dark skinned than her white, Hispanic or Asian counterparts.
Even in cases where foul play is suspected, if the victim is a black female, the question is usually is/was she a prostitute? Have drug problems? Is a persistent runaway? Or has been in foster care? Or employed?
“There is a culture in America that tends to sympathize with the blond white woman instead of the braided black woman,†said Ernie Suggs, vice president of print for the National Association of Black Journalists.
“There has always been a certain level of interest, a certain fascination with white missing persons. Americans identify with who they want to be,†Suggs said.
Decision makers for mainstream media outlets feel that if a black missing woman has any of those problems then their readership or viewership is less likely to relate to or empathize with the victim, and they reduce their coverage accordingly.
Ms. Chandra Levy, Ms. Laci Peterson, Ms. Natalee Holloway, Ms. Jessie Marie Davis became household names when they were reported missing.
Ms. Tamika Huston, Ms. Latoyia Figueroa, Ms. Linda Renee Innocent and Ms. Stepha Henry were also reported missing, but are not household names.
The first group were white women while the second group were black women.
According to the National Crime Information center there were over 105,000 active cases of people who were reported missing last year. It is unknown how many were black women.
However, some activist allege that intense media coverage of a missing woman usually leads to the involvement of the FBI.
The FBI does not offer to get involved in missing persons probes because they’re getting national attention, said spokesman Joe Parris, a supervisory special agent. The bureau “will get involved only if we have original jurisdiction or if we’re invited in by a state, local or international partner,†he said.
George L. Cook III, of New Jersey took an “enough is enoughâ€, stand in 2006 and launched a website called, letstalkhonestly.com/missingblackwomen†to put the message of black women into the media.
“I have been tracking missing black women since 2004 but did not start the website until 2006 when I realized there was a very serious problem in the coverage of missing black women compared to missing white women,†Cook said.
“There must be an unspoken code between news directors that story lines involving missing black women are not going to bring ratings. Perhaps it is because of the tough image that some black women portray is not sympathetic to is viewership. One of the things that I noticed was that people in the areas that black women were coming up missing and people did not know they were missing,†Cook stated.
“People would call me and be upset that their local media outlets had not covered the stories. My site gets about 1,000 hits a day until people in the area hear about them the hits go up considerably,†he stated.
“However, stories on missing black women are hard to find unless I go to the State Police data base to find most of the cases that I display. As a community we have to hold our black media outlets accountable also. BET and TV1 cold also mention missing black women and children,†Cook stated.
Cook is correct. THE CALL searched websites which features missing women. Out of 25 sites viewed only three featured a black woman and they were all light skinned with light colored eyes.
However, of the group of women previously stated the difference in exposure and interest created by the media is clear different.
Google searches reveal the follow inquires at almost 2 to 1 ratios:
Missing White Women
• Ms. Levy: 138,000
• Ms. Peterson: 254,000
• Ms. Holloway: 667,000
• Ms. Davis: 164,000
Missing Black Women
• Ms. Huston: 10,900
• Ms. Figueroa: 23,100
• Ms. Innocent: 9, 340
• Ms. Henry: 30,900
What is interesting is that in the case of Ms. Davis the FBI offered $10,000 for information on her disappearance.
However, currently there is a $6,000 reward for information to help find Ms. Henry, but that sum came from donations. Henry’s family contributed $4,000; Crime Stoppers offered $1,000; and another $1,000 was donated by a family friend.
Ms. Davis was found dead while Ms. Henry still remains missing. The ladies were reported missing from the same area two weeks apart.
Of all those missing in the country the group which receives the least amount of exposure than any other group are not black men or girls but black boys.
Blackandmissing.blogspot.com, is an online blog site that is dedicated to informing the public about missing black children both male and female that may or may not have been heard about in the media.
According to blackandmiss-ing.blogspot.com, Adji Desir is an black boy who has been missing since January 10 from Immokalee, Fla. Desir is developmentally disabled with the mental capacity of a two-year-old.
If you put both these names in Yahoo’s search engine, Adji Desir name will produce 478,000 results. Haleigh Cummings name will produce 4,440,000 results, which is 10 percent more.
Ms. Derrica Wilson, is president and CEO of Black and Missing Foundation, Inc., an online website that provides exposure for missing black people.
Ms. Wilson believes that when it comes to black boys, people are more likely to associate their disappearance as being a runaway. She mentions that the black men on her website never receive national attention and are never seen on television.
“Therefore there is no amber alert and without an amber alert there is no media coverage locally or nationally,†said Ms. Wilson.
“Now when it comes to black men, there are more missing black men in the United States than missing black women, according to the FBI missing person’s report. The reason I believe that black men do not receive media exposure is because society, media, and law enforcement like to relate their disappearance to drugs, crime, or violence,†she said.
Do Missing Black Women Get The Same Media Coverage As Missing White Women?
Eric L. Wesson
CALL Staff Writer
(This is part three of a three-part series on racism in the media and how the black community is viewed and portrayed through the eyes of the mainstream media.)
If you were dropped onto this planet you might find it strange that the only people who appear to be missing are young white women.
Missing White Woman Syndrome (MWWS) is the term used for the disproportionately greater degree of coverage in television, radio, and print news reporting of a missing person case involving a young, attractive, middle or upper middle class white woman, compared with cases concerning a missing black women, or missing persons of other races, sex or classes.
The essential features of a missing person said to give rise to MWWS are young, pretty white females, usually blonde, with blue eyes, green eyes or brown eyes and can actually be in any social economic status.
Those features are said to provoke discrimination in the reporting as news of the disappearance of a young white woman, and increases public interest in her disappearance.
A working class black woman or an older black woman is less likely to receive local news coverage especially, if they are dark skinned than her white, Hispanic or Asian counterparts.
Even in cases where foul play is suspected, if the victim is a black female, the question is usually is/was she a prostitute? Have drug problems? Is a persistent runaway? Or has been in foster care? Or employed?
“There is a culture in America that tends to sympathize with the blond white woman instead of the braided black woman,†said Ernie Suggs, vice president of print for the National Association of Black Journalists.
“There has always been a certain level of interest, a certain fascination with white missing persons. Americans identify with who they want to be,†Suggs said.
Decision makers for mainstream media outlets feel that if a black missing woman has any of those problems then their readership or viewership is less likely to relate to or empathize with the victim, and they reduce their coverage accordingly.
Ms. Chandra Levy, Ms. Laci Peterson, Ms. Natalee Holloway, Ms. Jessie Marie Davis became household names when they were reported missing.
Ms. Tamika Huston, Ms. Latoyia Figueroa, Ms. Linda Renee Innocent and Ms. Stepha Henry were also reported missing, but are not household names.
The first group were white women while the second group were black women.
According to the National Crime Information center there were over 105,000 active cases of people who were reported missing last year. It is unknown how many were black women.
However, some activist allege that intense media coverage of a missing woman usually leads to the involvement of the FBI.
The FBI does not offer to get involved in missing persons probes because they’re getting national attention, said spokesman Joe Parris, a supervisory special agent. The bureau “will get involved only if we have original jurisdiction or if we’re invited in by a state, local or international partner,†he said.
George L. Cook III, of New Jersey took an “enough is enoughâ€, stand in 2006 and launched a website called, letstalkhonestly.com/missingblackwomen†to put the message of black women into the media.
“I have been tracking missing black women since 2004 but did not start the website until 2006 when I realized there was a very serious problem in the coverage of missing black women compared to missing white women,†Cook said.
“There must be an unspoken code between news directors that story lines involving missing black women are not going to bring ratings. Perhaps it is because of the tough image that some black women portray is not sympathetic to is viewership. One of the things that I noticed was that people in the areas that black women were coming up missing and people did not know they were missing,†Cook stated.
“People would call me and be upset that their local media outlets had not covered the stories. My site gets about 1,000 hits a day until people in the area hear about them the hits go up considerably,†he stated.
“However, stories on missing black women are hard to find unless I go to the State Police data base to find most of the cases that I display. As a community we have to hold our black media outlets accountable also. BET and TV1 cold also mention missing black women and children,†Cook stated.
Cook is correct. THE CALL searched websites which features missing women. Out of 25 sites viewed only three featured a black woman and they were all light skinned with light colored eyes.
However, of the group of women previously stated the difference in exposure and interest created by the media is clear different.
Google searches reveal the follow inquires at almost 2 to 1 ratios:
Missing White Women
• Ms. Levy: 138,000
• Ms. Peterson: 254,000
• Ms. Holloway: 667,000
• Ms. Davis: 164,000
Missing Black Women
• Ms. Huston: 10,900
• Ms. Figueroa: 23,100
• Ms. Innocent: 9, 340
• Ms. Henry: 30,900
What is interesting is that in the case of Ms. Davis the FBI offered $10,000 for information on her disappearance.
However, currently there is a $6,000 reward for information to help find Ms. Henry, but that sum came from donations. Henry’s family contributed $4,000; Crime Stoppers offered $1,000; and another $1,000 was donated by a family friend.
Ms. Davis was found dead while Ms. Henry still remains missing. The ladies were reported missing from the same area two weeks apart.
Of all those missing in the country the group which receives the least amount of exposure than any other group are not black men or girls but black boys.
Blackandmissing.blogspot.com, is an online blog site that is dedicated to informing the public about missing black children both male and female that may or may not have been heard about in the media.
According to blackandmiss-ing.blogspot.com, Adji Desir is an black boy who has been missing since January 10 from Immokalee, Fla. Desir is developmentally disabled with the mental capacity of a two-year-old.
If you put both these names in Yahoo’s search engine, Adji Desir name will produce 478,000 results. Haleigh Cummings name will produce 4,440,000 results, which is 10 percent more.
Ms. Derrica Wilson, is president and CEO of Black and Missing Foundation, Inc., an online website that provides exposure for missing black people.
Ms. Wilson believes that when it comes to black boys, people are more likely to associate their disappearance as being a runaway. She mentions that the black men on her website never receive national attention and are never seen on television.
“Therefore there is no amber alert and without an amber alert there is no media coverage locally or nationally,†said Ms. Wilson.
“Now when it comes to black men, there are more missing black men in the United States than missing black women, according to the FBI missing person’s report. The reason I believe that black men do not receive media exposure is because society, media, and law enforcement like to relate their disappearance to drugs, crime, or violence,†she said.
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Women's march in a tough fight for media attention
By Lena Sin, The Province February 11, 2010 3:17 AM
In the shadow of Olympic hoopla are the city's activists and advocates, all vying for their 15 minutes in the international spotlight.
Even with an estimated 10,000 media representatives in Vancouver for the 2010 Games, getting their attention isn't always easy.
Dalannah Bowen, an advocate for the cause of the missing and murdered women of the Downtown Eastside, discovered that quickly Wednesday morning at a poorly attended news conference on the annual Women's Memorial March held each Feb. 14.
"There were a number of press conferences this morning and three this afternoon. So the competition is stiff right now," Bowen acknowledged.
The Memorial March Committee called "an international press conference" to publicize the 19th annual Women's Memorial March, held on Valentine's Day each year, to honour missing and murdered women in B.C.
But of the handful of reporters who showed up, none were with major international news agencies.
Three were with the local mainstream press, including The Province, while others included bloggers and small broadcasting agencies such as the Aboriginal People's Television Network.
Bowen remains hopeful that major broadcasters and print agencies will attend the march on Sunday -- even though they will be competing with the Chinese New Year's Parade in Chinatown and various Olympic events.
"Our sense is the story will be told," she said. "As long as we keep working, it will get out there."
Bowen says the international press can play a powerful role in pressuring municipal, provincial and federal governments to bring meaningful change to aboriginal women, who are overrepresented in poverty and violence statistics in B.C.
Women's advocate Fay Blaney also called Wednesday for a public inquiry into the missing women of the Eastside.
Despite the poor attendance at the news conference, international media such as the BBC and the New York Times have already zeroed in on the neighbourhood made infamous by Robert Pickton, who was convicted of killing six missing women from the Eastside.
The B.C. government has tried to manage that story with an information centre set up in the neighbourhood and fact sheets being distributed to journalists, who are urged to consider positive developments, according to a report in the Times.
VANOC had initially requested that the memorial march change its route this year due to the Olympics, but organizers refused.
The march will begin at 1 p.m. on Sunday outside the Carnegie Centre at Main and Hastings and will stop at sites around the Eastside, where women's bodies were found or where they were last seen before their disappearance.
Women's march in a tough fight for media attention
By Lena Sin, The Province February 11, 2010 3:17 AM
In the shadow of Olympic hoopla are the city's activists and advocates, all vying for their 15 minutes in the international spotlight.
Even with an estimated 10,000 media representatives in Vancouver for the 2010 Games, getting their attention isn't always easy.
Dalannah Bowen, an advocate for the cause of the missing and murdered women of the Downtown Eastside, discovered that quickly Wednesday morning at a poorly attended news conference on the annual Women's Memorial March held each Feb. 14.
"There were a number of press conferences this morning and three this afternoon. So the competition is stiff right now," Bowen acknowledged.
The Memorial March Committee called "an international press conference" to publicize the 19th annual Women's Memorial March, held on Valentine's Day each year, to honour missing and murdered women in B.C.
But of the handful of reporters who showed up, none were with major international news agencies.
Three were with the local mainstream press, including The Province, while others included bloggers and small broadcasting agencies such as the Aboriginal People's Television Network.
Bowen remains hopeful that major broadcasters and print agencies will attend the march on Sunday -- even though they will be competing with the Chinese New Year's Parade in Chinatown and various Olympic events.
"Our sense is the story will be told," she said. "As long as we keep working, it will get out there."
Bowen says the international press can play a powerful role in pressuring municipal, provincial and federal governments to bring meaningful change to aboriginal women, who are overrepresented in poverty and violence statistics in B.C.
Women's advocate Fay Blaney also called Wednesday for a public inquiry into the missing women of the Eastside.
Despite the poor attendance at the news conference, international media such as the BBC and the New York Times have already zeroed in on the neighbourhood made infamous by Robert Pickton, who was convicted of killing six missing women from the Eastside.
The B.C. government has tried to manage that story with an information centre set up in the neighbourhood and fact sheets being distributed to journalists, who are urged to consider positive developments, according to a report in the Times.
VANOC had initially requested that the memorial march change its route this year due to the Olympics, but organizers refused.
The march will begin at 1 p.m. on Sunday outside the Carnegie Centre at Main and Hastings and will stop at sites around the Eastside, where women's bodies were found or where they were last seen before their disappearance.
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February 10, 2010
Media Invited to Stand with Missing and Murdered Women
Press asked to be part of the change, not perpetuate the problem
by Moira Peters
"I grew up as a little girl not trusting those who were supposed to be looking after me. I was brought up to be ashamed of who I was. It took me years to feel good in this body, to accept that these brown hands are mine. Finally, I can say I am proud to be an Indigenous woman."
Carol Martin, a victim services worker at the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, was one of four Indigenous women "honouring" the media this morning at the Carnegie Theatre on East Hastings Street in Vancouver.
Martin, along with Mona Woodward of the Rain City Housing Coalition, Fay Blaney, founder of the Aboriginal Women's Action Network and Dalannah Bowen, Director of Interurban Gallery, invited media to a press conference in lieu of including the press in the February 14 march to honour 3,000 murdered and missing women in Canada.
Journalists are not permitted to attend the ceremony in the Carnegie Theatre at noon on Valentine's Day, and are asked not to film or snap pictures during the march, when friends and families of murdered and missing women will stop to perform healing ceremonies at sites where women have died.
"Nineteen years ago, a Coast Salish woman's body was found in parts in Victoria. She had been mutilated. The memorial for her death lasted 10 minutes," said Blaney. "The community [of Indigenous women] here recognized there's a lot of that."
Eighteen years ago, the first women's memorial march was organized.
"We want to uphold the memorial part of it, to extend respect to the families," she said. Even the organizers of the march, many of whom are political activists, do not bring their politics to the march.
Owen, on behalf of the women giving the press conference and women everywhere, called on the media to "be part of the change, not perpetuate the problem."
The problem – that the list of murdered and missing women, most of them Indigenous, has reached 3,000 since the 1970s; that the list is growing; and that there has not yet been a public inquiry into any of the cases – is exacerbated, according to Owen, by a media that misrepresents the stories of women beaten, violated, kidnapped and murdered across Canada.
Indigenous women in Canada deal with more health problems and homelessness than any other demographic group. "Our children are being taken away from us; our women are being killed," said Martin. "We are homeless in the very country that gets rich on our land."
With billions being spent on the Olympics this year in Vancouver, Owens said, Canadians need to "examine the other side of the coin." Why, when so many public resources are being spent on the 2010 Games, has there not even been a public inquiry into the systematic violence suffered by the most vulnerable Canadians?
If we live in a democracy, said Owens, where is equality? Where is justice?
"Media is a powerful vehicle. We challenge you to give this profile its proper due. Stand with us," she said.
March organizers were asked whether the Olympics in Vancouver would draw attention to – or by the same token, detract from – attention to the march because people would be focused on Vancouver and the Games.
"Our march happens to fall on the same day as the beginning of the Olympic Games. We're not going to strain our brains over it," said Martin.
"We would suggest we will have more people than ever," said Owen. "Not only is the world watching, but women of the world know this issue."
The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Olympics (VANOC) had suggested the march change its route, which has remained constant for 19 years. In response, 4,000 signatures in support of the march keeping to its original route were collected in less than three days.
Valentine's Day solidarity marches are expected in Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Sudbury, London, Montreal and Victoria.
"This is about living with dignity and respect in our daily lives," said Owen. "As long as we keep working, the story will be told."
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The 19th annual Women's Memorial March will begin at 1pm on February 14 at Carnegie Theatre. March organizers will host a media scrum at 11:15 am on the Carnegie patio, and the march will end at Oppenheimer Park.
February 10, 2010
Media Invited to Stand with Missing and Murdered Women
Press asked to be part of the change, not perpetuate the problem
by Moira Peters
"I grew up as a little girl not trusting those who were supposed to be looking after me. I was brought up to be ashamed of who I was. It took me years to feel good in this body, to accept that these brown hands are mine. Finally, I can say I am proud to be an Indigenous woman."
Carol Martin, a victim services worker at the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, was one of four Indigenous women "honouring" the media this morning at the Carnegie Theatre on East Hastings Street in Vancouver.
Martin, along with Mona Woodward of the Rain City Housing Coalition, Fay Blaney, founder of the Aboriginal Women's Action Network and Dalannah Bowen, Director of Interurban Gallery, invited media to a press conference in lieu of including the press in the February 14 march to honour 3,000 murdered and missing women in Canada.
Journalists are not permitted to attend the ceremony in the Carnegie Theatre at noon on Valentine's Day, and are asked not to film or snap pictures during the march, when friends and families of murdered and missing women will stop to perform healing ceremonies at sites where women have died.
"Nineteen years ago, a Coast Salish woman's body was found in parts in Victoria. She had been mutilated. The memorial for her death lasted 10 minutes," said Blaney. "The community [of Indigenous women] here recognized there's a lot of that."
Eighteen years ago, the first women's memorial march was organized.
"We want to uphold the memorial part of it, to extend respect to the families," she said. Even the organizers of the march, many of whom are political activists, do not bring their politics to the march.
Owen, on behalf of the women giving the press conference and women everywhere, called on the media to "be part of the change, not perpetuate the problem."
The problem – that the list of murdered and missing women, most of them Indigenous, has reached 3,000 since the 1970s; that the list is growing; and that there has not yet been a public inquiry into any of the cases – is exacerbated, according to Owen, by a media that misrepresents the stories of women beaten, violated, kidnapped and murdered across Canada.
Indigenous women in Canada deal with more health problems and homelessness than any other demographic group. "Our children are being taken away from us; our women are being killed," said Martin. "We are homeless in the very country that gets rich on our land."
With billions being spent on the Olympics this year in Vancouver, Owens said, Canadians need to "examine the other side of the coin." Why, when so many public resources are being spent on the 2010 Games, has there not even been a public inquiry into the systematic violence suffered by the most vulnerable Canadians?
If we live in a democracy, said Owens, where is equality? Where is justice?
"Media is a powerful vehicle. We challenge you to give this profile its proper due. Stand with us," she said.
March organizers were asked whether the Olympics in Vancouver would draw attention to – or by the same token, detract from – attention to the march because people would be focused on Vancouver and the Games.
"Our march happens to fall on the same day as the beginning of the Olympic Games. We're not going to strain our brains over it," said Martin.
"We would suggest we will have more people than ever," said Owen. "Not only is the world watching, but women of the world know this issue."
The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Olympics (VANOC) had suggested the march change its route, which has remained constant for 19 years. In response, 4,000 signatures in support of the march keeping to its original route were collected in less than three days.
Valentine's Day solidarity marches are expected in Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Sudbury, London, Montreal and Victoria.
"This is about living with dignity and respect in our daily lives," said Owen. "As long as we keep working, the story will be told."
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The 19th annual Women's Memorial March will begin at 1pm on February 14 at Carnegie Theatre. March organizers will host a media scrum at 11:15 am on the Carnegie patio, and the march will end at Oppenheimer Park.
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BCA uses Facebook to help solve cold cases
Associated Press - March 26, 2010 12:04 PM ET
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is now using Facebook to help solve cold cases.
The BCA set up a page on the social networking site so it could generate new leads on cold cases, as well as call on the public for help in missing persons cases, Amber alerts and more.
The site will also provide the public with information on Internet safety and general crime prevention.
BCA Director of Administrative Services Janell Rasmussen says the agency wants to do everything it can to solve every case it investigates. She says Facebook allows the BCA to reach out to the public in a different way, and get the word out fast in cases where lives might be at stake.
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BCA uses Facebook to help solve cold cases
Associated Press - March 26, 2010 12:04 PM ET
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is now using Facebook to help solve cold cases.
The BCA set up a page on the social networking site so it could generate new leads on cold cases, as well as call on the public for help in missing persons cases, Amber alerts and more.
The site will also provide the public with information on Internet safety and general crime prevention.
BCA Director of Administrative Services Janell Rasmussen says the agency wants to do everything it can to solve every case it investigates. She says Facebook allows the BCA to reach out to the public in a different way, and get the word out fast in cases where lives might be at stake.
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Bureau of Criminal Apprehension: http://www.bca.state.mn.us/bca.asp
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TPD Creates "Missing Persons" Facebook Page
Reported by: Abbie Alford Last Update: 8:55 am
Think about all the people you have found on Facebook, the old flames and friends you’ve reconnected that you thought you would never hear from again.
With more than 300 reported missing persons cases in Tulsa a year Facebook is a tool that Tulsa Police are now using to find the very people we thought vanished.
The faces, “Lisa Addington she disappeared from her bachelor party," says Detective Margaret Loveall, TPD Missing Persons Unit.
Familes, "this is a parental abduction" says Loveall of the 2000 Cortes disappearance. Marisela Cortes vanished and police believe she took her four-year-old son Matthew too.
There are daughters such as Karen Heim who went missing in 2005, “She went out with friends on [December] 26th and her car was found in Texas on the [December] 27th," says Loveall.
Some have been missing for 20 or 30 years or most recently as last year.
"Missing persons cases are slightly different than a true homicide case where there is a body," Loveall.
However, some people don’t want to be found.
"Sometimes the family just doesn't know where they are or the victim left by choice either because of a family problem or wanting to change their life,” says Loveall.
On Facebook, people can find just about anyone on the social site.
"You can look for anyone on the Internet if you look hard enough, if they are alive. Some people are really good at hiding," says Loveall.
The Tulsa Police Missing Persons Unit created a “TPD Missing Persons” page on Facebook to track down those who have vanished and it’s working.
"I found a man today that I have been looking for about three months who has a Facebook page," says Loveall. "Hopefully he will return my message and say, 'hey this is what is going on I am not really missing.'"
However, in many missing persons cases something bad has happened.
Tina Pitts was a 42-years-old mother who vanished in November 2006. She had three children and now her story and hundreds of others will be on Facebook for 400 million users to see.
"I am going to be more interested in other people's cases like my sister's case and everybody will too. It's called being nosy but everyone is nosy on Facebook," says Pitts’ sister Angie. "I am going to find her and find who took her away."
The TPD Missing Persons page is still in its infant statges, eventually the page will have all of Tulsa’s missing persons cases with a photograph and brief summary of their disappearance posted to the page.
The International Association of Cold Case Investigators, a non-profit organization founded by former veteran of TPD’s Homicide unit, Mike Nance, and current TPD Homicide Sergeant Mike Huff, also have a Facebook page to network with other law enforcement and equivocal death educators. It’s also an avenue to help communication with families of murdered victims.
TPD Creates "Missing Persons" Facebook Page
Reported by: Abbie Alford Last Update: 8:55 am
Think about all the people you have found on Facebook, the old flames and friends you’ve reconnected that you thought you would never hear from again.
With more than 300 reported missing persons cases in Tulsa a year Facebook is a tool that Tulsa Police are now using to find the very people we thought vanished.
The faces, “Lisa Addington she disappeared from her bachelor party," says Detective Margaret Loveall, TPD Missing Persons Unit.
Familes, "this is a parental abduction" says Loveall of the 2000 Cortes disappearance. Marisela Cortes vanished and police believe she took her four-year-old son Matthew too.
There are daughters such as Karen Heim who went missing in 2005, “She went out with friends on [December] 26th and her car was found in Texas on the [December] 27th," says Loveall.
Some have been missing for 20 or 30 years or most recently as last year.
"Missing persons cases are slightly different than a true homicide case where there is a body," Loveall.
However, some people don’t want to be found.
"Sometimes the family just doesn't know where they are or the victim left by choice either because of a family problem or wanting to change their life,” says Loveall.
On Facebook, people can find just about anyone on the social site.
"You can look for anyone on the Internet if you look hard enough, if they are alive. Some people are really good at hiding," says Loveall.
The Tulsa Police Missing Persons Unit created a “TPD Missing Persons” page on Facebook to track down those who have vanished and it’s working.
"I found a man today that I have been looking for about three months who has a Facebook page," says Loveall. "Hopefully he will return my message and say, 'hey this is what is going on I am not really missing.'"
However, in many missing persons cases something bad has happened.
Tina Pitts was a 42-years-old mother who vanished in November 2006. She had three children and now her story and hundreds of others will be on Facebook for 400 million users to see.
"I am going to be more interested in other people's cases like my sister's case and everybody will too. It's called being nosy but everyone is nosy on Facebook," says Pitts’ sister Angie. "I am going to find her and find who took her away."
The TPD Missing Persons page is still in its infant statges, eventually the page will have all of Tulsa’s missing persons cases with a photograph and brief summary of their disappearance posted to the page.
The International Association of Cold Case Investigators, a non-profit organization founded by former veteran of TPD’s Homicide unit, Mike Nance, and current TPD Homicide Sergeant Mike Huff, also have a Facebook page to network with other law enforcement and equivocal death educators. It’s also an avenue to help communication with families of murdered victims.
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Father awaits charges in 1993 abduction
10:43 PM CDT on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 By LEIGH MUNSIL / The Dallas Morning News
A father accused of kidnapping his 3-year-old son more than 17 years ago is awaiting formal charges in Waco, the city the pair disappeared from.
Now 21, Stephen Michael Palacios persuaded his father to turn himself in last week after reading a story about his disappearance in the Waco Tribune-Herald.
Stephen Palacios Jr. is being held in McLennan County Jail, with bail set at $350,000. He is scheduled to appear before a judge Oct. 15 for an arraignment hearing, where he will be formally charged with custodial interference.
The charge, which was originally written as a third-degree felony, was changed to a state jail felony by the Legislature in 1993, according to Preston Findlay, counsel for the Missing Children's Division at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
If his original indictment occurred before the law changed Sept. 1, 1994, Stephen Palacios Jr. will probably be prosecuted according to the original law, which carries a penalty of two to 10 years in prison and a possible fine of up to $10,000, Findlay said.
But if the indictment occurred after, the penalty would be from 180 days to two years in state jail plus the same possible fine.
The McLennan County district attorney's office did not respond to requests Wednesday to clarify when Stephen Palacios Jr. was first indicted.
Stephen Palacios Jr. was transported to the jail Monday from Houston, where he was being held after turning himself in at the office of his attorney, Paul Nugent. Authorities have not said where the father and son had been living or whether they used aliases since their disappearance in March 1993.
After reading the newspaper article, Stephen Michael Palacios reportedly told his father he wanted to meet his mother, 40-year-old Dee Ann Adams of Bedford.
Adams has not been reached for comment.
Father awaits charges in 1993 abduction
10:43 PM CDT on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 By LEIGH MUNSIL / The Dallas Morning News
A father accused of kidnapping his 3-year-old son more than 17 years ago is awaiting formal charges in Waco, the city the pair disappeared from.
Now 21, Stephen Michael Palacios persuaded his father to turn himself in last week after reading a story about his disappearance in the Waco Tribune-Herald.
Stephen Palacios Jr. is being held in McLennan County Jail, with bail set at $350,000. He is scheduled to appear before a judge Oct. 15 for an arraignment hearing, where he will be formally charged with custodial interference.
The charge, which was originally written as a third-degree felony, was changed to a state jail felony by the Legislature in 1993, according to Preston Findlay, counsel for the Missing Children's Division at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
If his original indictment occurred before the law changed Sept. 1, 1994, Stephen Palacios Jr. will probably be prosecuted according to the original law, which carries a penalty of two to 10 years in prison and a possible fine of up to $10,000, Findlay said.
But if the indictment occurred after, the penalty would be from 180 days to two years in state jail plus the same possible fine.
The McLennan County district attorney's office did not respond to requests Wednesday to clarify when Stephen Palacios Jr. was first indicted.
Stephen Palacios Jr. was transported to the jail Monday from Houston, where he was being held after turning himself in at the office of his attorney, Paul Nugent. Authorities have not said where the father and son had been living or whether they used aliases since their disappearance in March 1993.
After reading the newspaper article, Stephen Michael Palacios reportedly told his father he wanted to meet his mother, 40-year-old Dee Ann Adams of Bedford.
Adams has not been reached for comment.
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San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office using Facebook to help solve cold cases
By Sophia Kazmi Contra Costa Times Posted: 10/13/2010 02:59:17 PM PDT
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY -- You can now count the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office as one of the millions of Facebook users.
The agency is asking users of the social networking site to "like" it on Facebook to get updates from the agency on cold case homicides and missing person cases.
The agency sees the popular social networking site as another way to get information out to the public.
"By embracing today's technology, social networking gives our citizens an opportunity to help us with our continuing pursuit of solving cases and bringing justice to the citizens of this county," San Joaquin County Sheriff Steve Moore said in a statement.
The page may be found by doing a search on Facebook for "San Joaquin County Sheriff's unsolved homicides/missing persons." The official page has a profile picture of the Sheriff's Office shoulder patch.
San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office using Facebook to help solve cold cases
By Sophia Kazmi Contra Costa Times Posted: 10/13/2010 02:59:17 PM PDT
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY -- You can now count the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office as one of the millions of Facebook users.
The agency is asking users of the social networking site to "like" it on Facebook to get updates from the agency on cold case homicides and missing person cases.
The agency sees the popular social networking site as another way to get information out to the public.
"By embracing today's technology, social networking gives our citizens an opportunity to help us with our continuing pursuit of solving cases and bringing justice to the citizens of this county," San Joaquin County Sheriff Steve Moore said in a statement.
The page may be found by doing a search on Facebook for "San Joaquin County Sheriff's unsolved homicides/missing persons." The official page has a profile picture of the Sheriff's Office shoulder patch.
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