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Watch ESSENCE's Google Chat with ProPublica on PTSD in Our Community

Watch ESSENCE News Editor Lauren N. Williams break down "Black America's Invisible Crisis" with ProPublica reporter Louis Beckett. Join us!
Watch ESSENCE's Google Chat with ProPublica on PTSD in Our Community
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By Essence · Updated October 27, 2020
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Thousands of African-Americans living in violent cities suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

On Wednesday, September 24 ESSENCE’s News Editor Lauren N. Williams and ProPublica reporter Lois Beckett held a Google Hangout to discuss the issue, which was also addressed in their story “Black America’s Invisible Crisis,” featured in the October issue of ESSENCE.

Watch the conversation above.