HBO's 'Black and Missing' offers an antidote to Missing White Woman Syndrome
It may be one of the saddest truisms of modern media: Attractive white women get news coverage when they go missing.
But missing women of color often get media coverage only when people notice how much attention everyone is paying to the white women.
That dynamic jumps from the screen during HBO's newest documentary series Black and Missing, crafted by multiple Emmy winner Geeta Gandbhir and longtime journalist/author/activist Soledad O'Brien. Presented in four parts over two days, the docuseries focuses on The Black and Missing Foundation, Inc., a Maryland-based non-profit founded by two powerful Black women dedicated to searching for missing people of color when police and the media fall short.
Viewers meet co-founders Derrica Wilson, a former police officer in
