Writer shares troubling story about invisible threat impacting neighborhood where she grew up: 'We lived in the shadow'

Writer shares troubling story about invisible threat impacting neighborhood where she grew up: 'We lived in the shadow'

Growing up, writer Reniqua Allen-Lamphere worried about gun violence. But as an adult, she's realized that the biggest danger to her childhood was invisible — but no less dangerous.  What's happening? Allen-Lamphere shared her story in The Guardian. Growing up in a peaceful community in Englewood, New Jersey, she spent most afternoons playing in a local park, where she would splash in the brook and enjoy the sunshine. But just beyond, the threat…