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Childhood's Greatest Danger: The Data on Kids and Gun Violence

Black children are now nearly six times as likely as white children to be killed with a gun. Annual gun-death rates for children, ages 1 through ...

Section 15 Race and Color Discrimination

... segregation and discrimination in the United States. ... Steven, an African American, is a librarian at a public library. ... chances for Blacks). 8 ...

Third Places Lost to Racism: Urban Amusement Parks

Then there was the 1907 book, The Negro, A Menace to American Civilization written by Dr. ... A Black child or man would stand with their ...

Guns and Violence Against Women - Everytown Research

... children to end up dying by ... Whitfield, “It's Complicated: Why Some Black ... Every day, 125 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice ...

Race, Racism, and Cardiovascular Health: Applying a Social ...

Black adults experience higher burden of CV risk factors such as hypertension and obesity, and are more than twice as likely to die of CVD, ...

Black Maternal Mortality: A Result of the Haunting past

This rate means that for every 100,000 live births that occur in America, there are 55 maternal deaths, when roughly 300,000 babies are born ...

African-Americans & the Black Experience: Milestones in Black History

What Was Black America's Double ... segregated America and made herself a star in Europe. ... Jefferson said that children are rarely fazed at meeting a black Santa ...

Minnesota Governor Signs Bill Raising Bar for Taking 'African ...

Legal observers have noted risks in singling out a specific race in the law — namely, Black children who are overrepresented in foster care.

Improving the health of African Americans in the USA: an overdue ...

Violence is also a major determinant of health disparities. It is a major cause of injury, disability, and premature death. Black male ...

Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care: Scorecard

... mortality rates are higher for Black ... In 2019, Black and Latinx children were less likely than white children ... Segregation in a Medicaid ...

Whites Remember Jim Crow - American Public Media

Children of Jim Crow | Segregation in Public Places | Blacks ... a black child playing near his back doorstep. ... My African American supervisor, trembling with a ...

13. Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Conditions in U.S. ...

The average isolation index was now 39 in neighborhoods, indicating that most Black residents in the cities under study lived in a ward that was almost 40 ...

Segregation & Swimming Timeline in the United States

1948: Federal District Judge Ben Moore orders Montgomery, West Virginia to stop denying Black swimmers access to its one publicly funded pool. The suit, brought ...

Systemic racism: individuals and interactions, institutions and society

Racially segregated housing creates racial isolation, with disproportionate costs to Black Americans' opportunities, networks, education, wealth ...

Segregation academies still operate across the South. One town ...

Board, Black and white residents, in Camden, Alabama, say they would like to see their children schooled together. But after so long apart, they ...

The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America

Help for Child and Teen Survivors of Suicide Loss. The Dougy Center — dougy.org. Resources for children, teens, young adults and their families grieving a death ...

High rates of asthma in black children linked to racist housing laws

Across America, nearly 4 in 10 Black children live in areas with poor environmental and health conditions compared to 1 in 10 white children.

School racial segregation and long-term cardiovascular health ...

Continuation of school segregation in the US may be a contributor to the high CVD burden in Black communities. · National and local educational ...

Racial disparities in drowning deaths persist, research shows by ...

It shows that from 2014 to 2018, in babies and children under 19, fatal drowning rates were highest among Black and American Indian and Alaska ...

Toxic stress and children's outcomes - Economic Policy Institute

Residential housing segregation exacerbates the likelihood that children ... An African American student from a low ... In low-income African ...