Racial Trauma is a form of race-based stress that affects Black people and people of color when they experience and witness dangerous events and perceived experiences of racial discrimination.
For many, racial trauma appears as threats of harm and injury, humiliation, and often witnessing people of color being harmed, which can negatively impact one’s mental health.As the Black Lives Matter movement continues to grow in the wake of the recent deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Ahmaud Arbery, people all around the world and in the U.S.
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