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Volume 15
Issue 2 Fall 2009
Article 4
2009
Suicide and African Americans: An Overview
Kenneth Osiezagha
Meharry Medical College
Amandeep Kaur
Meharry Medical College
Narviar C. Barker
Meharry Medical College
Rahn Kennedy Bailey
Meharry Medical College
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