By Laura Ungar This spring, high school senior Nathan Kassis will play baseball in the shadow of covid-19 — wearing a neck gaiter under his catcher’s mask, sitting 6 feet from…
By April Dembosky, KQED For months, journalists, politicians and health officials — including New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Dr. Anthony Fauci — have invoked the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study to explain why Black Americans…
Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio: bfarmer@wpln.org, @flakebarmer Masks and physical distancing are proving to have major fringe benefits, keeping people from getting all kinds of illnesses — not just covid-19. But it’s…
By Aneri Pattani and Kaiser Health News CONCORD, N.C. — It had been months since Tremellia Hobbs had an excuse to bring out the pompoms. Before the pandemic, they were a…
By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio and Kaiser Health News When Darius Settles died from COVID-19 on the Fourth of July, his family and the city of Nashville, Tennessee, were…
Written by Danielle Harvey It is no secret that the world of hip-hop, as dazzling, freeing and creative as it can be, that it harbors a heavy dose of misogyny…
Posting about their day is a regular practice for Generations Y and Z, especially when they have something novel or exclusive to share. So, in the thick of a global…
Super Bowl LV had a lot of powerful and inspiring moments during Black History Month. The CBS Sports feature, Before Jackie, narrated by Academy Award winning actress, Viola Davis was written…
President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders that his less than two-week-old administration hopes will be a catalyst to tackling America’s long-standing race problem. Biden’s action focused on…
In an interview ahead of The Sidney Poitier New American Film School’s unveiling, University President Michael M. Crow said Poitier embodies everything that one would look for in an icon.…