This weekend, Lifetime’s “ripped from the headlines” series shines a spotlight on a very real, very dangerous issue: the disproportionate number of women of color who go missing every year and the disparity in attention that those cases receive. Black Girl Missing isn’t just based on one true story. It’s based on an entire phenomenon.
Black Girl Missing is part of Lifetime’s Stop Violence Against Women campaign and comes from executive producer Garcelle Beauvais, who also stars as a mother forced to take the search for her missing daughter into her own hands when she’s met with disinterest from the police and media.
As for when and how you’ll be able to watch Lifetime’s Black Girl Missing, we’ve done all the searching for you and have the details below. Here’s everything you need to know about watching and/or streaming Black Girl Missing on Lifetime.
Black Girl Missing starring Garcelle Beauvais premieres on Lifetime on Saturday, March 4 at 8 p.m. ET. You don’t need a TV to watch the movie live as it airs, either. You can watch it via Lifetime’s website if you have a cable login.
Also worth pointing out: a special titled Beyond the Headlines: Black Girl Missing will air following the film’s debut. You can watch Beyond the Headlines: Black Girl Missing at 10 p.m. ET on Saturday, March 4.
If you don’t have a cable login, you can watch Lifetime’s content as it airs via the following live TV streaming services: frndly, Hulu, Sling TV, and Philo.
Following its premiere on Saturday, March 4 at 8 p.m. ET, Black Girl Missing will re-air on Lifetime at the following times:
If you keep missing Black Girl Missing on cable, you can still stream it online. Following its premiere, you will be able to stream Black Girl Missing on Lifetime’s website for free (with ads). You can also stream it on-demand via frndly, Hulu, Sling TV, and Philo.
Garcelle Beauvais (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) plays Cheryl; Taylor Mosby (The Last O.G.) plays Cheryl’s youngest daughter Marley; Iyana Halley (All American: Homecoming) plays Lauren, Cheryl’s missing daughter; Linda Park (Bosch) plays Elise, a reporter; William Mapother (Lost) plays a news director; and Nick Thune (Love Life) plays a police detective.
Black Girl Missing is not based on one specific true story. Instead, the film used real details from many true stories of missing women of color. Details from the film — like Cheryl turning to the Black and Missing Foundation for help — were definitely ripped from the headlines. To explore how Black Girl Missing intersects with real cases of missing women of color, you can watch Beyond the Headlines: Black Girl Missing at 10 p.m. on March 4 following the movie’s premiere.
For more information about the Black and Missing Foundation, you can visit blackandmissinginc.com.
Black Girl Missing premieres on Lifetime on Saturday, March 4 at 8 p.m. ET