Thursday 26 July 2018

Lynchings of the past affect health today

(Springer) Counties with higher rates of lynching between 1877 and 1950 showed higher mortality rates between 2010 and 2014. A new study by researchers from the University of South Carolina in the US, led by Janice Probst and Saundra Glover, looks into the relationship between past occurrence of lynching -- unpunished, racially motivated murder -- and recent death rates.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science https://ift.tt/2LnvfFL

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