By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The child population in America is the most diverse in history, but children remain the poorest age group in the…
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 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…
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…
Two patties cooked to perfection, gooey melted “cheese,” fresh lettuce, juicy tomatoes, and caramelized onions all wrapped into a golden brioche bun. You’d think you’d just ordered a double-double at…
By Hannah Recht and Lauren Weber Photo by @hakannural Black Americans are receiving Covid vaccinations at dramatically lower rates than white Americans in the first weeks of the chaotic rollout, according to a…
Our nation has reached a grim milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic: over 400,000 Americans have died from complications of the coronavirus. Black Americans are 3.7 times as likely as white…
By Nina Feldman, WHYY When the coronavirus arrived in Philadelphia in March, Dr. Ala Stanford hunkered down at home with her husband and kids. A pediatric surgeon with a private…