Addressing violence against black communities can start with anti-racist practices in clinical care and research.

Structural racism, the systems-level factors related to, yet distinct from, interpersonal racism, leads to increased rates of premature death and reduced levels of over-all health and well-being.

Disproportionate use of lethal force by law-enforcement officers against communities of color is not new, but now we increasingly have video evidence of the trau-matizing and violent experiences of black Americans.