When Natalie Wilson and her sister-in-law, Derrica Wilson, heard about a young girl who went missing in Derrica’s neighborhood, they decided they had to help. They also quickly realized that Tamika Huston was getting little to no media coverage, so Natalie, a PR executive, and Derrica, a law enforcement officer, believed they had the necessary skills to get Tamika’s case out to the world.

The end would be tragic. Tamika was killed by her ex-boyfriend. But the case marked the beginning of the Black and Missing Foundation, dedicated to providing support for the families of missing people of color, who get the short shrift when it comes to publicizing their disappearances. They are the real-life heroes of the docuseries, “Black and Missing.”

Natalie Wilson joins In Focus to talk about the organization’s work, and how important it is to push police and the press to search hard for the missing, rather than be driven by bias and creating a narrative that when Black people go missing, they must have done something wrong.

Larry and Lorraine Stackhouse know that all too well. Their son, Larry Stackhouse, Jr. was on his way to a basketball game when he vanished into thin air. The Stackhouses join In Focus to talk about their struggle to try to get their son’s case into the public eye. They say no matter how hard they tried to tell police and reporters their son was a good young man, there were false stories spread far and wide that he was involved in some kind of criminal activity.

He’s been missing now for nearly 16 years. All three talk about the importance of putting bias aside when searching for missing people, whatever their race.