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When the Missing Stay Missing: The Crisis of Disappearing Black Americans

Summary by Word In Black
In January 1973, a 27-year-old Black woman named Cheryl Lanier vanished from San Francisco. No one filed a missing persons report for 37 years.  When her case was finally logged in 2010 and the city police department’s Missing Persons Unit investigated, but the case languished, unsolved for decades. This month, DNA analysis confirmed Lanier had died in Houston, Texas, in September 1976 — three years after she disappeared — after jumping from a m…
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Word In Black broke the news on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.
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