Black mothers trapped in unsafe neighborhoods signal the stressful health toll of gun violence in the U.S.
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 4, 2023
Black 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 segregated communities with high levels of gun violence. Research has suggested that living in violent and unsafe environments can result . . .