Black mothers trapped in unsafe neighborhoods signal the stressful health toll of gun violence in the U.S.
- Written by Loren Henderson, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The stress of experiencing high levels of community violence harms entire families.skynesher/E+ via Getty ImagesBlack mothers are the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to the mental and physical harms of stress from living with gun violence in America.
In the U.S., Black people are likelier than white people to reside in impoverished, racially...