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A spontaneous worship session one Sunday morning led Hannah Shackelford to a Grammy win, an honor she never could have dreamed of receiving.

The findings were published Tuesday in the journal JAMA Network Open and stem from a survey that followed the lives of thousands of children in Chicago since the mid-1990s. 

"It shows us Massachusetts has a lot of resources and a good starting place, but we need to do more to reduce those inequities."

Rates of gun assaults on children roughly doubled during the covid-19 pandemic, according to a study that looked at gun deaths and injuries in four major cities. Black children were

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The rates of gun assaults on children roughly doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study that examined gun deaths and injuries in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. Philly's rate rose from about 30 per 100,000 children to about 62 per 100,000 during the pandemic.

Black children have been 100 times as likely as white children to be victims of fatal and nonfatal shootings. Pre-pandemic, they were 27 times as likely.

A study of roughly 2,700 shootings in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia found that racial disparities in gun injuries and deaths widened during the covid-19 pandemic. Researchers looked only at assaults, excluding accidents or incidents of self-harm.

Rates of gun assaults on children roughly doubled during the covid-19 pandemic, according to a study that looked at gun deaths and injuries in four major cities. Black children were the most frequent victims.

A study of roughly 2,700 shootings in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia found widening racial disparities after the pandemic began, with black children the most frequent victims.