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Our Black Girls Site Highlights 100k Missing, Indigenous Under-reported Homicides

7/18/2026

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Journalist Erika Marie Rivers runs the Our Black Girls website alone, publishing a new missing-person story every other day.
She posts about 100,000 Black girls and women reported missing in the United States in 2025.
Families say the site draws attention to cases ignored by police and sometimes prompts renewed investigations.
Indigenous people made up 21% of Wyoming homicide victims from 2000-2020 despite receiving only 18% of media coverage.

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Story summary

Journalist Erika Marie Rivers runs the Our Black Girls website alone, publishing a new missing-person story every other day.
She posts about 100,000 Black girls and women reported missing in the United States in 2025.
Families say the site draws attention to cases ignored by police and sometimes prompts renewed investigations.
Indigenous people made up 21% of Wyoming homicide victims from 2000-2020 despite receiving only 18% of media coverage.