Jacksonville, Florida’s Gun Violence Is Rooted in Redlining and Homes Built on Toxic Waste

Jacksonville’s gun violence is rooted in redlining and homes built on toxic waste

Poisons from “Brown’s Dump” seeped into the lifeblood of residents. The mental and physical harms link to another public health crisis: high rates of gun violence among children.

Jacksonville, Florida’s Gun Violence Is Rooted in Redlining and Homes Built on Toxic Waste

Poisons from Jacksonville, Florida’s “Brown’s Dump” seeped into the lifeblood of residents. The harm to their physical and mental health is tied today to another public health crisis: high rates of gun violence among children.

In Jacksonville, Florida, Gun Violence Rooted in Redlining and Toxic Waste

A legacy of pollution has shaped a tragic disparity in Jacksonville, which has three of the 10 worst zip codes associated with child firearm injury rates in Florida, according to a new analysis by KFF Health News and The Trace.

Has Decades of Redlining and Poisoned Land Help Fuel Northwest Jacksonville’s Gun Violence? – Free Press of Jacksonville

Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School in Jacksonville, Florida, was closed in 2001 due to environmental contamination from ash and toxic waste that was dumped and used as fill dirt in the area. The school opened shortly after the property was closed as a landfill in 1955. It’s still standing, though the property is fenced off. (Fred Clasen-Kelly/KFF Health News) In a Florida county with a startling rate of child firearm injuries, a boarded-up el…

Jacksonville, Florida’s Gun Violence Is Rooted in Redlining and Homes Built on Toxic Waste - Health Care Today

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a Florida county with a startling rate of child firearm injuries, a boarded-up elementary school named for famed educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune sits in a 250-acre site once called “Brown’s Dump.” The dump emerged in an era of redlining, systematic racism that divided American cities large and [...]