A National Center for Health Statistics report (as recounted in the New York Times) indicated that suicide rates in 2014 were the highest they had been in thirty years. American Indians, a community whose bodies have been met with an interminable history of oppression, erasure, and inequity, saw the highest rise in rates, with a horrifying increase of 89 percent.35 A ProPublica analysis of federal data regarding police-involved shootings found that young Black men between ages fifteen and nineteen were twenty-one times more likely to be killed by the police than young White men of the same
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