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Protecting our children after the wounds of racism divide us even more

  • Written by Nia Heard-Garris, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan Medical School, University of Michigan

I find myself in this place again. I am numb. I feel empty. I almost have no words.

In 2012, around the time of the birth of my son, I had a similar feeling. Trayvon Martin was killed. I was pregnant with a black male in a world that was not ready for him.

And here I am again, with a three-and-a-half-year-old now, following the deaths of many, many...

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