This is a word, a podcast from Slate. I'm your host, Jason Johnson.

True Crime is a hot topic for movies, television, and yes, podcasts,

and at the center of many of these stories

is a missing woman and secrets

that take the storyteller to dark places.

But what happens when those dark places

are actually very close to home.

I did not know my father's side of the family and I always knew there was probably a lot I

didn't know about myself through that other side.

The story behind the podcast,

She Has a name.

Coming up on a word with me,

Jason Johnson. Welcome to a word a podcast about race and politics and everything else. I'm your host

Jason Johnson. The challenge of finding a missing person is something that's

still complicated by race. The police and the media may be a lot slower to search and to mobilize

community attention for African Americans than for white folks. And that's

what happens now. If you step back in time to the 80s before hashtags and go fund mes and while many cities struggled

in the grip of the crack epidemic, that made searching for missing people almost impossible.

That's the backdrop behind the

podcast. She has a name.

Tanya Mosley, a veteran journalist and co-host of NPR's fresh air,

shares a that the missing woman was Tanya Mosley's sister, a sister Mosley never knew existed

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