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.
Numbers like this will only go up from here. This is the end result of capitalism. Everything squeezing everyone to death to make the obscenely wealthy a little bit more. Because why does anyone else matter at all.