Tamika Huston: still missing

Tamika Huston: still missing,
originally uploaded by Professor Kim.

In a commentary for BlackAmericaWeb, David Person wonders why, in the wake of the tragic cases of Laci Peterson and Lori Hacking, the national press is paying so little attention to the disappearance of Tamika Huston, who was last seen June 2, 2004 in South Carolina:

I've got to wonder why it took so long to get her name in the national missing person's discussion. I don't want to believe that what drew me to her story -- her young, classically beautiful blackness -- is the same thing that made her invisible to other media...

I don't know what happened to Tamika Huston. But I do know that her case needed the same media scrutiny that the Peterson and Hacking cases got. She and her family are as deserving of support and justice as their families are.

On Dec. 11, Huston's family held a vigil to mark her 25th birthday. More information on Huston's disappearance and her family's efforts to elicit attention and information can be found here.