MISSION
At The Dock Ellis Foundation, our mission is to empower minority communities by bringing home missing persons. We believe that everyone deserves to be safe and have a voice, regardless of their background or economic standing. We are dedicated to providing support and resources to families and individuals who are affected by crime and violence.
VISION
Dock P. Ellis, Jr. He was an African American Major League Baseball Pitcher from 1968 through 1979. He pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Texas Rangers, and New York Mets. Well known for his no-hitter, five National League Eastern Division titles, and winning the World Series in 1971, we are reminded of his courage, and how he notably transcended racial prejudice and resistance as an African American Major League Baseball player in that time. Dock's legacy lives on through the work of the Dock Ellis Foundation, whose mission is to advocate and assist minority missing persons and victims of human trafficking, domestic violence, and sexual assault.
So why don’t we know their names?
We are the voice for those who can’t speak: the missing, the beaten, the trafficked. It is our chosen responsibility to bring them home safely. We also provide resources to the minority victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking that are neglected and poorly served by the justice system. Black women account for less than 15% of the U.S. population, but more than one-third of all missing women. Black women also face a disproportionately high risk of being killed at the hands of a man. According to the FBI, at least four Black women were murdered per day in 2020. When it comes to human trafficking, Black women are at increased risk here as well. Black women make up 40% of people who have survived sex trafficking. Black youth comprise 51% of all prostitution arrests for those under age 18—more than any other racial group.
THE DATA WILL SHOW THAT:
HUMAN TRAFFICKING40% of sex trafficking victims were identified as Black women. According to the FBI, 57.5% of all juvenile prostitution arrests are Black children. |
PHYSICAL VIOLENCEMore than four in ten Black women experience physical violence from an intimate partner during their lifetimes. White women, Latinas, and Asian/Pacific Islander women report lower rates. |
PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSEBlack women also experience significantly higher rates of psychological abuse—including humiliation, insults, name-calling, and coercive control—than do women overall. |
SEXUAL VIOLENCESexual violence affects Black women at high rates. More than 20 percent of Black women are raped during their lifetimes—a higher share than among women overall. |
HOMICIDEBlack women face a particularly high risk of being killed at the hands of a man. A 2015 Violence Policy Center study finds that Black women were two and a half times more likely to be murdered by men than their White counterparts. More than nine in ten Black female victims knew their killers. |
MISSING PERSONNEARLY 40 PERCENT OF MISSING PERSONS ARE PERSONS OF COLOR, YET AFRICAN AMERICANS MAKE UP ONLY 13 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION. |
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