Relisha Rudd was just 8 years old when she was last seen, chillingly walking into a hotel room with Kahlil Tatum on March 1, 2014. The young, bright-faced girl had been living in a homeless shelter in Washington, D.C., where Tatum, a janitor at the shelter, had befriended her family. An official report of her disappearance wasn’t filed until March 20, weeks after her disappearance, because officials didn’t realize she was missing. To this day, Relisha has never been found.

It’s a sad reminder of how our children can still disappear into the night, without question, and few respond. JET, EBONY’s sister publication, addressed this issue in an investigative report in April 2013, shining much-needed light on a national crisis: the thousands of missing Black children who vanish each year but r

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