Amid that broad national push against DEI, a report now on one state's effort to close

a significant racial gap in this country, the disproportionate rate at which black women

and girls are murdered or go missing. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro has

this story from Minnesota, part of our series, Race Matters.

All the times that I miss my sister and want her included in different things that are happening

throughout our family, we always come here. Her niece and nephew have came and shown their

Halloween costumes. I just miss her so much.

Not a day goes by that Lakeisha Lee doesn't think about her sister.

She was a caretaker. She was natural nurturer.

Brittany Clarity was just 18 when she went missing in 2013.

She went to a store in her family's St. Paul neighborhood

and didn't return. We knew something was wrong right away because she wasn't someone who didn't

talk with her family and didn't stay in touch. Lee and her family went to the police who told them to

call back after 24 hours.

They told us, oh, she could possibly, you know, have ran away with her boyfriend to Chicago.

And I'm just like, no, that's not the case here.

We know she's missing and something's wrong.

It was really disheartening that we weren't heard at that time. Ten days later, they got word that Clarity's car had been brought to an impound lot.

She was found murdered inside.

It was like our whole world was turned upside down.

To make matters worse, headlines about Clarity's murder referred to her only as a prostitute.

She met her killer after he responded to her ad for sexual services.

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