By Angela Ly “The whole concept began when I started analyzing not just the students but the community itself and how the impact of behavior can cause people to have…
By Elisabeth Rosenthal and Kaiser Health News Here’s one big takeaway from our country’s disastrous 2020 covid response: For 20 years, we’ve lavished attention and money on fighting human terrorism and…
By Harris Meyer Nearly all women who deliver babies through cesarean section at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City receive injections of the blood thinner heparin for weeks…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia African Americans comprise about half of the more than 100,000 inmates in Florida prisons and jails. Black males ages 30…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia From the hymns of slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries to hip-hop artists’ powerful message in the 20th and…
By Laura Ungar Alexandra Sierra carried boxes of food to her kitchen counter, where her 7-year-old daughter, Rachell, stirred a pitcher of lemonade. “Oh, my God, it smells so good!” Sierra,…
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 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…