Suicides among Black People May Be Vastly Undercounted
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 6, 2022
Ian Rockett has spent much of his career working closely with coroners and medical examiners researching the epidemiology of suicide. One of the questions the West Virginia University investigator has pondered over many years in the field is why the rate of suicide among Black people in the U.S. is recorded as a third of that among white people.
In recent years, Rockett’s research has started to provide some answers, and it illustrates the extent to which medical examiners and coroners . . .
