Correction 4/25: This article has been updated to more clearly reflect the findings of the study. Researchers at the University of Michigan published a study investigating how lifetime stress impacts ...

Perceived stress was associated with both prevalent and incident cognitive function impairment in Black and white older adults, underlining the need for stress assessments among high-risk adults ...

Participants were from the Stress and Well-being in Everyday Life Study in which 238 people (109 Black and 129 white, ages 33-93), drawn from the longitudinal Social Relations Study, reported life ...

Researchers at Harvard University examined MRI scans of 7,350 white and 1,786 Black children ages 9 and 10. The data in the study was collected by the National Institutes of Health in 2019.

During Hughes’ childhood, there were 20 or 30 Black farmers nearby, he said. Now all his neighbors are white. Over more than an hour, prodded, the quiet man listed a litany of stress.

Ricco Hall, graduating May 2023 from a Private White Institution (PWI) with an education doctorate in Human and Organizational Learning, encountered his share of stress pursuing his PH.D.

Stress that is left unaddressed can negatively affect mental and physical health and reduce life span. The life expectancy for Black women is 76 versus 80 for white women.

Black and Hispanic students were more likely than their white classmates to have considered leaving college in the last six months, according to a recent report from Gallup and the Lumina Foundation.

As many studies, including the current one, confirm, Black children in America experience more adversity than white children due to deep and historical structural inequalities.