This is NPR's Life Kid, Antonia Mosley, a co-host of here and now.

And this week marks one year since the day George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis.

We saw this years have been fired after a man was pinned to the ground and died.

The incident was caught on camera.

In the wake of George Floyd's death, we've seen people across the country protesting for

racial justice.

And we've seen Derek Chauvin convicted of murder.

We the jury in the above entitled matter has to count one unintentional second to

be a murderer while committing a felony by the defendant guilty.

The new cycle never ends and for people of color, there's the added burden of processing

disturbing and racist images and experiences in day to day life.

Just having these images constantly streaming can have a significant impact on one's ability

just to feel healthy and well each day.

It's April Preston.

She's a psychotherapist who studies the impacts of racial trauma and she says her clients

are feeling the effects of this past year.

More and more clients having panic attacks and really just feeling unsafe right now.

So in this episode of Life Kid, we're going to take a look at how we can begin to talk

about this and process racial trauma.

April, racial trauma is something we've been talking about relatively recently.

It's putting a name to something that many marginalized groups understand.

It's trauma from the ongoing result of racism, racist bias and exposure to racist abuse

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