Health

Global warming not only impacts the strength of the storm, but it can also impact the mental health of those affected by it. 

Black men have the lowest life expectancy in the United States. A new study examines why a doctor’s race can make all the difference.

The completed pipeline would expose Black communities along its path to dangerous levels of pollution, says the NAACP.

In a report to Congress, they placed the number at approximately 1,427 people. Meanwhile, a May study said the death toll was at least 4,645.

The law will make the city the first in the United States to protect its residents from the high costs that come with a privately-owned water utility.

The EPA’s inspector general says the agency’s passivity worsened a “catastrophic situation.”

Reproductive rights activist Yamani Hernandez: “Black liberation is not measured in numbers of Black births; it is measured by thriving, autonomous Black lives.”

Moms of color living on low incomes are the most likely to suffer postpartum depression and the least likely to receive proper care. Here’s how implicit bias, societal shame and (reasonable) fear conspire to perpetuate the disparity.

Though women of color stand to be hardest hit, reproductive rights activist Nancy Northrup argues that overturning the law would negatively impact everyone living in America.