For Black children, specifically, gun violence has been the leading cause of death since 2006. TREVON BOSLEY: Just growing up in that environment, you have to move differently.

Even though drowning is preventable, it is the second leading cause of unintentional death in children — and children of ...

Drowning is the #1 cause of death for kids ages 1-4 and 64% of Black kids can’t swim. Paulana Lamonier is a New York City native who tweeted a few years ago that she wanted to teach 30 Black ...

Homicide is a leading cause of death for children in the United States, a new study says, and the overall rate has increased an average of 4.3% each year for nearly a decade.. Black boys were ...

I love super-sour candy, having grown up guzzling the likes of Jelly Belly Sours, Dweebs, Haribo Tangfastics and Swizzels Refreshers. But I'm a bit nervous about the Black Death, which has already ...

Black suicide rates, among the nation’s lowest prior to 2000, have steadily climbed in the past two decades – and young Black people are most at risk: According to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

New Study Solves Mystery of Why Black Children Are More Likely to Die Than White Children. ... According to experts, the leading causes of death for children ages 5 to 19 were all external.

The gun-death rate for children is nearly five in every 100,000. It was flat for more than a decade starting in 2000, and most years fewer than three in every 100,000 children were killed by guns.

Guns killed 2,526 children between the ages of 1 and 17, an average of seven youths slain a day, according to an analysis of 2022 data released by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.

Death toll in catastrophic Texas flooding rises to 27, including nine kids, as four girls from Christian camp are ID'd This story has been shared 39,397 times. 39,397 ...

Crews searched through the dark early Saturday for two dozen children from a girls’ camp and many others who were still ...