Dr. Valda Crowder says prisons and jails remain dangerous for spreading COVID-19.
What happens in prison does not stay in prison. The cell blocks and bars give us a false...
New American Economy (NAE), a bipartisan immigration research and advocacy organization, today released new data on immigrants and COVID-19, examining the role of Black immigrants in...
Tomorrow, the Trump administration and 18 Republican governors and attorneys general will file their opening briefs with the Supreme Court in California v. Texas—the health care repeal...
Dr. LaKesha Legree, Dr. Amber Brooks, Dr. Tamika Knox and Dr. Kristen Trulear-Jackson.
Four prominent female doctors of color have joined forces to launch a new television...
Philadelphia mother Melissia Baker is fearful of contracting COVID-19 and dying from it--like her father.
Baker, who lives in the Germantown area, checks off on several of...
American scientists are working furiously to develop treatments for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.
No group of patients needs a vaccine more than those with chronic...
Everyday racism is more dangerous than institutional racism to Black mental health experts say in new book.
50 years ago, the Father of Black Psychology, Professor Joseph L...
Health scientist Michelle Mabson explores connections between the racism that choked the breath of life from Eric Garner to the toxic air pollution and environment racism affecting African...
Infectious disease expert Dr. Cornelius Clancy says we need new antibiotics to battle COVID-19.
The coronavirus infects and kills more Americans each day.
While the...
Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (Calif.-17) unveiled the Emergency Medical Supplies Procurement Act to mobilize the federal government to close the gap in the...
If Black America had more community-based hospitals, clinics, doctors and nurses wouldn't we have been better able to survive COVID-19?
COVID-19 is ravaging Black America....
What will the long-term psychological impact of COVID-19 be on children who are living through this trauma?
Recently actor Will Smith conducted a video interview with Dr....
Amazon workers are dying from COVID-19--and workplace whistleblowers, largely Black and minority, are reportedly being fired for speaking out.
On Thursday, more than 50...
A new report links severe sleep apnea in African-Americans to high blood glucose levels.
African-Americans with severe sleep apnea and other adverse sleep patterns are much...
Jeff and Leslie Jones from Afro Flow Yoga.
Afro Flow Yoga extends our most sincere apologies for yesterday's disruptions, disconnections and other problematic issues when...
I think you have "Filtered HTML" turned on here. If you switch to "Full HTML," it will probably...
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