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Black and white thinking is when someone thinks in extremes. Learn more about what it is, what causes it, and what you can do about it.
Hi Jake, Lately, I’ve been feeling kind of… judged. Not by strangers or trolls online, but by my own friends. The reason? I’m ...
It should have said that mortality rate was cut in half when Black babies were cared for after their birth by doctors of the same race.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed disparities in access, care, and health outcomes that Black disabled women and girls have had to face.
Black veterans who ask the VA for physical or mental health benefits are less likely to get them than white veterans. The VA is launching a new effort to fix that.
In accordance with the U.S. Flag Code, the black and white flag with the blue stripe in the center is not technically an official version of the American flag. The black and white flag with the ...
Mental health system is not equipped to address the critical impact racism has on Black youth, writes Amanda Calhoun.
Black mothers and babies had worse outcomes than those who were Hispanic, Asian or white in all the health measures the researchers looked at: whether babies were born early or underweight ...
For most people, more education leads to healthier and longer lives. Not so for Black men. Racism's power in harming their health may be more persistent than previously understood, researchers say.
What she found was that, for white mothers, giving birth as a teen was, indeed, associated with higher health risks to their infants, but for Black women the trend was reversed.
Disparities in healthcare are increasingly a hot topic in the journals. Two recent studies demonstrate disparity but identify very different actionable causes. As with all healthcare, it is more ...
The body mass index might not be accurate for all populations due to structural racism in dietetics. Here's if BMI is accurate for Black women and alternatives.