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Do you know this girl? Have you ever heard of her? I hadn’t, until just today. Let me educate you. Her name is Teekah Lewis. She just turned 19 when us Americans were hooting and hollering over the lame ass, predictable fireworks. She’s been missing since January 23rd of 1999. I saw an episode of Nancy Grace Mysteries by chance (I’ve never watched her before), and I immediately searched Teekah on tumblr, assuming at least this website would know about her. I assumed wrong. This beautiful black, now woman, has two posts about her. Two. She is just as important of every little rosy cheeked white baby gone missing. So please, help find Teekah. Or at least know her fucking name.

Additional sources: http://www.defrostingcoldcases.com/case-month-teekah-lewis/ http://www.missingkids.com/poster/NCMC/859446/1 http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1212/07/ng.01.html

Clip from “Beah: A Black Woman Speaks” a documentary on the life of actress Beah Richards. The film was directed by actress Lisa Gay Hamilton

So work for it

Please Donate to This Little Black Girl Hit By A Car

Her father writes:

”My daughters been fighting for her life since she was struck by a car while playing in our front yard with her brother. A speeding car in our neighborhood apparently lost control and ran onto our lawn, striking my baby before she, her, brother nor I had a chance to react. Shes been fighting over 2 weeks and her prognosis isn’t positive. She still has not yet regained full consciousness. We are asking anyone who can help us to please do so. The expenses are astronomical and we have a $2500.00 deductible to satisfy before our health insurance even begins to cover their portion. This unforeseen tragedy has affected us greatly. As a single father of an 11 y/o son and 5 y/o daughter I am doing all I know to do to help my baby get the treatment she needs. i have not been able to find their mother to inform her and ask her assistance as she cut off contact when i was awarded custody of our babies. Billing statements have already started to flood my mailbox and between those and the time I’ve missed at work to be by her side, our family us in crisis. I don’t know where else to turn. Please help if you can and pray my baby will beat the odds and make a recovery. Every little bit counts. Thank you.”

https://www.gofundme.com/29qv338

In Minneapolis, one block down from where George Floyd was murdered, there is a mock cemetery where you can visually see all the black lives lost to either police brutality, racism or both..

Took pictures of the ones stories I really knew well and still not all the pics made tumblrs 10 pics limit.. last pic I wanted to add to this was Oscar Grant’s ❤️