Despite the efforts of a landmark public health campaign, African-American children remain sharply overrepresented in Sacramento morgues, SN&R has found.
According to a review of online coroner records, 75 persons age 18 and younger died in Sacramento County over a one-year period ending March 14. Twenty-three of the young decedents—nearly 31 percent of the total—were black.
That’s an 8-point jump in just a couple of years, though the figure needs some contextualizing: Fewer children are dying than in the past, including fewer black children. But as child mortality rates improve across the board, African-American families remain disproportionately stalked by tragedy.
[For more on this story by Raheem F. Hosseini, go to https://www.newsreview.com/sac...content?oid=26019479]
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