A new local journalism collaboration tells a story of a generation of black men lost to overdoses

December 20, 2024
December 20, 2024 Joe Amditis

A new local journalism collaboration tells a story of a generation of black men lost to overdoses

The New York Times, The Baltimore Banner and seven other local news organizations, in partnership with Big Local News, published today about a pervasive and long-running crisis in fatal drug overdoses among Black men born from 1951 to 1970, what’s known as a cohort effect, and one that we have found

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Joe Amditis

Joe Amditis is the associate director of the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. He can be reached via email at amditisj@montclair.edu and on Twitter at @jsamditis.