The New York Times has created an interactive visualization showing how Black men born in the United States between 1951 and 1970, who came of age at a time of wide racial economic disparities, are dying at disproportionately high rates from drug overdose. The newspaper partnered with several other newsrooms to analyze publicly available death records in ten American cities—including San Francisco, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.—and found that older African American men were four times more likely to die from drug overdose than similarly aged men from other racial groups. The visualization above shows that this generation of Black men in Chicago has been dying disproportionately from drug overdose throughout their lifetime, and especially during the recent fentanyl crisis.
Visualizing Disproportionate Drug Overdose Deaths in Black Men
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