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‘Alarming’: Black Youth Suicide Rate Has More Than Doubled

By Alexa Spencer, Word in Black  Historically, suicide rates among Black youth have been lower than other races and ethnicities. But lately, that’s been changing. A recent report by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that suicide rates for Black youth ages 10-17 more than doubled between 2007 and 2020. The researchers called the 144% […]

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