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© PressTVStatistics show more than 64,000 African-American women are missing in the US.
More than 64,000 African-American women are currently missing in the United States, according to latest statistics.

Despite representing 12.85 percent of the population, black Americans accounted for nearly 226,000 - or 34 percent - of all missing persons reported in 2012, said an article by Identities Mic, citing FBI figures.

According to the National Crime Information Center, more than 270,000 minorities have been reported missing since 2010, half of them African Americans. Black women and girls comprised more than 64,000 of the missing reports.

The Black and Missing Foundation has also documented the disappearances of these women.

However, there has not been much coverage in the mainstream media about these appearances in the US. Critics say this underlines a racial divide in news coverage of such incidents.

In addition, critics charge that law enforcement authorities do not seem to put in the same effort in finding victims or perpetrators when the missing persons are black.

The families of these black girls and women often anguish over their missing loved ones for many years.

"Some people say that they are impressed with our efforts to find Phoenix," Goldia Coldon, the mother of Phoenix Coldon who went missing in December of 2011, told The Huffington Post. "But I feel that we have not done enough ... I don't know what else to do."

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