What About Stepha?

September 12th, 2007

Here is The latest news on Stepha Henry, the Black law school student who went missing in Miami after a night out clubbing with her cousin:

From www.alltayo.com

From Tallahassee.com:

Reward in disappearance of woman increased to $15,000

From The South Florida Sun Sentinel

MIAMI DADE - The potential reward for information that leads to an arrest in the disappearance of Stepha Henry, 22, who has been missing since May, has increased to $15,000, authorities announced Thursday afternoon.

Henry’s family, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Barbara Jordan, Esserman Nissan in Miami and the National Congress of Black Women donated a total of $14,000, to add to the original $1,000 reward Crime Stoppers offered.

Miami-Dade police suspect foul play but have been unable to identify a suspect or find any trace of Henry, who was visiting from Brooklyn, New York, and was reported missing May 29 by relatives in North Miami-Dade. She was last seen at Pepper’s Cafe in Sunrise.
http://www.tallahassee.com/legacy/special/blogs/2007/08/reward-in-disappearance-of-woman.html

I didn’t even have to take excerpts from the article it was so scant. No need for you to click on the link, it’s just there for citation purposes.

There’s scarcely little info, especially up-to-date info, on Stepha Henry. And can you believe the friggin reward has only been $1,000 for the last three months?

Your best bet to keep tabs on our missing is to check out Dedria at Black and Missing but not Forgotten

I did an analysis of the shameful media disregard of missing black and brown in favor of celebrity handbags and such, here. There are a couple of interesting videos there as well. No sooner than the ink dries on that post, and I’m flipping channels last week and there’s a new special on Fox News, with Greta Van Susteren, about the young white girl from Alabama that got lost in Aruba two years ago. But Stepha just went missing this summer and they’re already ignoring her. Hell, they were ignoring her with in a week, when it was still likely that she could have been found.

I saw this long ass story on Madeleine McCain last Thursday night, as well, on one of the cable networks, and I was just thinking; even after months they’re still going hard broadcasting about a girl who went missing on another continent, in which viewers in America could hardly be of any help and are not In danger of the kidnapper – as I don’t think anyone believes the child was taken across the ocean, or that she was taken by an international kidnapper.

Yet, they only cover someone who went missing right here, like Stepha Henry, for a couple of days; and hardly cover other black people at all whatsoever.

It shows how little they think of Black life. And they wonder why we need our own magazines, networks and institutions just for black people. You would hardly know we even exist in America otherwise, except on ESPN; because you know white folk love to see us run and jump, they just don’t love us.



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