For years, experts have warned about a growing mental health crisis among America’s young people. But within that trend, there are important signals about racial disparities. Between 2018 and 2022, the suicide rate among Black youth rose by more than 50 percent. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Chicago for our series, Race Matters. A warning: this story discusses topics of suicide.
I am next soon. It’s just too miserable to live on the line. Nothing else I can do about it either. I hope someday this changes for the future people, and by that I mean rich people should be the ones with fear, not the other way around.
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