Professor cummings speaks to high school students about childhood trauma and racial inequities in the justice system

cummings, andr茅 douglas pond. Meek Mill鈥檚 Trauma: Brutal Policing as an Adverse Childhood Experience. Sylvan Hills High School, Sherwood, AR (March 19, 2021).

Sylvan Hills High School faculty members invited Professor cummings to speak to juvenile justice students regarding childhood trauma known as Adverse Childhood Experiences. cummings described how unnecessary toxic trauma is inflicted upon African American and Latinx youth disproportionately by U.S. law enforcement and the criminal justice system.