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By Casey Cipriani
As the Institute for Women’s Policy Research points out, a 2015 study shows that black women are two and a half times more likely to be murdered by men than white women, yet there’s often much less coverage of black women’s cases than those of white women. Late PBS journalist Gwen Ifill even dubbed the phenomenon “Missing White Woman Syndrome,” criticizing how the media frequently seems disinterested in covering cases involving people of color.