Naturi Naughton Stars in "Abducted at an HBCU: A Black Girl Missing Movie" Highlighting the Disappearances of Black College Students.

If there's one thing Lifetime is going to do, it's being awareness to issues concerning women. Their recent committment to showcase more diverse stories has now hit home with parents, young adults and Black women more specifically. Over the past few years Lifetime has been developing stories with notable celebrities like Garcell Beauvais, Robin Roberts, Toni Braxton, Terry McMillan and more to bring stories from a different perspective to their viewers.

Beauvais has been most influential in making sure that stories about missing and abducted Black women get their fair share of the public eye. She originally starred int he 2023 film "Black Girl Missing" that touched on the very subject of Black women not getting as much media coverage as the White counterparts. That was just the beginning of her relationship with Lifetime as she has partnered with them to bring even more stories of awareness from the shadows to the forefront. Her newest collaboration is "Abducted at an HBCU: A Black Girl Missing Movie".

Abducted at an HBCU: A Black Girl Missing Movie follows the story of Shannon (Tanyell Quian), an ambitious college student who is struggling to pay her college tuition and eventually stops attending classes.  The only person who notices Shannon’s sudden disappearance is her college counselor Ellen (Naturi Naughton).  Ellen’s concerns are dismissed by Shannon’s professors, campus administration, students and even her own boyfriend.  Instead of answers, Ellen is met with careless comments about how “girls like that” from underserved communities often drop out of school.  Determined to find Shannon, Ellen inadvertently uncovers a trafficking ring targeting students in need like Shannon. With time running out, Ellen must fight tirelessly to gain the support she needs to rescue Shannon and bring down the trafficking ring.

Abducted at an HBCU: A Black Girl Missing Movie is produced for Lifetime by Johnson Production Group in association with Motion Content Group.  Garcelle Beauvais, Tim Johnson, Stacy Mandelberg, Gordon Gilbertson, Jason Egenberg, Richard Foster and Chet Fenster are executive producers.  Delmar Washington, who directed the first Black Girl Missing movie, returns to direct this movie, based on a script written by Avery O’Williams (Plenty, Just Divorced).

"Abducted at an HBCU: A Black Girl Missing Movie" premieres on Lifetime July 20, 2024 at 8pm EST. We can't wait to see what else Garcelle Beauvais and Lifetime come up with!