Surviving Trauma: Intergenerational Violence Affects Many in Black Community
BY AJMAANIE ANDRE
URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI – Charlene Bouie felt different from other children from an early age. It was decades, though, before she fully understood why: She’d been sexually abused, multiple times, by the time she was a young teenager. Then as an adult, she was physically and verbally abused by her ex-husband, a man who had experienced childhood violence himself when his grandmother’s boyfriend murdered his grandfather. This intergenerational cycle o