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TV Show Publicizes Missing Persons Of Color

by Karen Grigsby Bates, NPR
February 24, 2012

While African Americans constitute only 13 percent of the population, they account for more than 40 percent of missing persons. Find Our Missing on black cable network TV One wants to be the catalyst for tips that might solve a disappearance.

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  • Morning Edition, February 24, 2012
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