In 2016, a study was published in the medical journal Pediatrics, which found that Black kids 5 to 12 years old were two times more likely to die by suicide compared to white youth in the same age group.
In the study that I mentioned, the researchers found that white and Black children who died by suicide had several things in common.
These young children who died by suicide were far more likely to be Black than white children.
However, it is in line with recent data finding a definite rise in the number of suicides in black children and a drop in white children.
Black children younger than 13 were twice as likely to die by suicide than white children.”
