Trauma Lives in the Body

Cara Anthony SIKESTON, Mo. — At age 79, Nannetta Forrest, whose father, Cleo Wright, was lynched in Sikeston, Missouri, before she was born, wonders how the decades-long silence that surrounded his death in 1942 influenced her life. In 2020, Sikeston police killed another young Black man, 23-year-old Denzel Taylor. Taylor’s shooting death immediately made local…

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Journalists Weigh In on Racial Trauma, Medicaid Expansion, and Opioid Settlements

KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony discussed healing from racial trauma on “America’s Heroes Group” on Sept. 20. Click here to watch Anthony on “America’s Heroes Group” Explore Anthony’s series on the topic, “Silence in Sikeston” KFF Health News contributor Andy Miller discussed Medicaid expansion in Georgia on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health Report” on Sept….

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