HBO's Black and Missing Will Make Us Rethink How We Respond to Missing Person Cases
If not us, then who?” The five-word phrase was popularized by Rep. John Lewis and repeated by Derrica Wilson, co-founder of the Black and Missing Foundation, an organization advocating for Black missing persons and the subject of a new four-part HBO documentary series called Black and Missing. Derrica and her sister-in-law and fellow co-founder Natalie Wilson have taken on the incredibly crucial yet rarely celebrated work of championing some of the most ignored and vulnerable members of society. Their work takes them to the grief-stricken arms of families still looking for their loved ones, police departments riddled with implicit bias wasting precious time, and newsrooms too busy looking the other way to see the crisis in front of them.