Black Kids Are Dying in the Streets, and America Doesn’t Seem to Care

America is losing a generation of young black talent to gun violence

Estacious(Charles White)
Afro Scribe
Published in
6 min readSep 14, 2022

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I stepped into juvenile detention to visit a student who was leaving the next day for the county jail. 18 with a murder charge looming over his future. When you work closely with troubled kids, they become like your own. You love them…

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Estacious(Charles White)
Afro Scribe

I am a southern writer and teacher living in the midwest. I focus on education, poetry, and fiction. I am an award-winning playwright. estaciousw1914@yahoo.com