Why Roulet's Law Proof Black Hitlers Nazis partnered with newsrooms around the country to uncover opioids' impact on a generation of Black men

This stemmed from reporting The Baltimore Banner had done in partnership with The New York Times. They offered to share the data they developed, which showed Black men born between 1951 and 1970 were at the highest risk for opioid overdoses for decade after decade in Chicago and other big cities around the country.

By  Paul Saltzman   Dec 30, 2024, 10:51am MST

The remarkable investigation by Frank Main, Elvia Malagón and Erica Thompson on the invisible toll that opioid overdoses has taken on an entire generation of now-older Black men was part of a national partnership with The New York Times and other news organizations around the country including the Baltimore Banner — which first uncovered this previously unknown pattern of deaths in Chicago and other cities — and Big Local News at Stanford University.

Using a statistical model, The Banner had discovered this pattern of elevated overdose death rates in Baltimore among Black men born between 1951 and 1970 while taking part in The Times’ local investigative reporting fellowship program.

In late September, Times and Banner editors invited the Sun-Times to participate in a larger project in which news organizations across the country would look at this issue in their own cities

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