Lashann Walker News Today

Karen Phillips had hoped she wouldn’t have to attend another news conference for her daughter’s birthday. Phillips’ daughter, Kierra Coles, has been missing for five years. On Sunday, her daughter’s 31st birthday, Phillips, 52, gathered with family and others whose loved ones have disappeared to ask again for the public’s support as well as that of police and law enforcement in finding her ...

The family of a missing Chicago postal service worker who disappeared while pregnant five years ago is still hoping and praying for her return on what would have been her 31st birthday.

Police say Cheretha Morrison, who lived in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, was last seen at 69th and South Throop on February 26, 2021. Her Porsche Cayenne SUV was later found 21 miles in Rogers Park. 

They came together as a collective to say: “Stop it, do something, and do it now.”

Mothers and community activists gathered in front of the Daley Center for a news conference on Mother’s Day to shine a light on mothers of missing Black women and children.