area next to a forest preserve which is right adjacent to a lagoon. whoa. i watch enough dateline to know that s probably not a good sign. was nailah down there in that murky water? we had light trucks out there. they dredged the lagoon. back and forth they went, scoured every inch of the pond and the thick woods behind it and found one weird thing. there was some jewelry that was on some of the bushes. pearls and such just hanging there. the cops checked with her friends. looked like nailah s they said, except nailah wasn t here. but remember sister leah s p. r. campaign? not far away from there, next town over. the person saw a newscast and they were like that car s been on my block for a couple days. and thank god they saw that and thank god they cared enough to call it in. that call came from here. hammond, indiana, just down the
you ll want to remember is nailah. the meaning was one who succeeds. this is nailah s mother, maria. i wanted her to be successful and she was. she lived her name. quite true. as, frankly, have the rest of them in this big family. this is leah, the first born. we might need a graph or a chart because it s kind of involved. full siblings, half siblings, quarter siblings once removed. that sort of thing. very blended. we share one parent. so technically half siblings but that word is kind of offensive to me because to me it implies that it s something less. and i ve never felt that way. i ve never used that word. we re just siblings. one big, close, happy family. so said john, the youngest. it s simple for us because we grew up together from the time we were young. so for us, it s like we re one big family.
same attention by the public in general. you know, there s that old saw in the media business and in fact, there s some truth to it. yeah, i think it s not just a saw. the good-looking young blonde goes missing and the whole world wants to know about it and stay talking about it for years. uh-huh. black woman s not quite the same deal. no, and there is reality to that. it troubles the mind that when people of color go missing or if it doesn t fit the narrative of gun violence or gang violence or something like that, then somehow it s not it s not real. so leah knew, but leah was not to be denied. decided they were damn well going to cover it. well, they were. and maybe this was because of leah s media savvy. the next morning, nailah s picture was all over the news. flyers with her picture are taped to traffic posts and handed out to people passing by. we were in the streets and
so leah called her friends and other siblings. had anyone heard from nailah? i didn t speak with her that day, didn t speak with her the day before. i said no, i actually haven t. i ve been really busy and i haven t talked to her. nicole feared. she called the chicago p. d., filed a missing person s report and then she drove over to nailah s condo, knocked on the door. no answer. she got a key. she went in. you see her eggs and coffee she had just left there just out. something s wrong. just like, you know what? this isn t right. and then leah got professional. she knew how. she s a public relations executive. and she called every media contact she had. you kind of went wide on this thing. your pr impulse really kicked in. yes. leah s experience told her not to hope too much for media help. for one very unfortunate reason. quite frankly, i don t know of a lot of women of color or people of color who get the
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