Despite making up only 13 percent of the female population in the U.S., studies have shown that Black women account for 35 percent of the country’s missing women.
Legislators in Minnesota hope to establish the nation’s first-of-its-kind organization to investigate the disappearances of a disproportionately high number of Black women and girls in the United States.
House Bill HF55, which would create the Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls, was approved by the Minnesota House on Feb. 20 by a majority of 110–19. The groundbreaking endeavor is anticipated to cost about $2.5 million and would examine the circumstances of missing persons and cold cases, today!
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