The Ku Klux Klan killed 3,446 black people in America over 86 years; black men in America kill about the same number of blacks every six months
Lueana Coward knows that in a perfect world, no mother would bury her child.
But twice in the past 10 years, Coward stood in Fairview Cemetery in McKeesport as pallbearers lowered coffins carrying the bullet-riddled bodies of her oldest and youngest sons into the ground.
"I can't even describe it — what it feels like to lose not one child, but two," said Coward, 51, of McKeesport. "There is so much violence among young black men. It's an epidemic, a disease. Blood is running in the streets, and I wonder how many more mothers are gonna have to plan funerals for their sons before society decides enough is enough."
Black men killing black men is a problem of astounding magnitude. Statistics the Tribune-Review examined from the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office show about 8 in 10 murders since 2006 involved black victims, and black men were victims in 7 of every 10 slayings. The victims' average age: 25.
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