Kendrick Lamar: "I am Trayvon Martin. I'm all of these kids."
Dorian Lynskey, The Observer, 21 June 2015
LAST YEAR, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented research demonstrating that "youth living in inner cities show a higher prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder than soldiers". The report estimates that 30% of young people in urban "combat zones" suffer from some form of PTSD.
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