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As part of the Center for Health Journalism Fellowship, journalists work with a senior fellow to develop a special project. Recent projects have examined health disparities by ZIP code in the San Francisco Bay Area, anxiety disorders and depression in the Hispanic immigrant community in Washington state, and the importance of foreign-born doctors to health care in rural communities.
Black girls are called “fast” and boys are seen as men. Both lose their innocence thanks to adultification bias.
Black girls are so often viewed as sex objects that the blame is shifted to the girls being sexualized instead of the adults.
One in four Black girls will be sexually abused before age 18. When the women we spoke to told their parents, they weren’t protected.
In and out of schools, Black youth fear for their lives. And, for one teen in California, that fear comes every time he gets in his car.
In 2015, LA County created a program to reduce the number of mentally ill people trapped in jail. Instead, the number has increased significantly.
The one-time economic engine of the 'Harlem of the West' has become an environmental disaster area—and the city isn't taking it seriously.
A reader’s guide to what adultification bias is, how it shapes the lives of Black children, and why this stereotype of Black childhood needs to change.
A woman who lived her life homeless in Los Angeles almost got the help she needed. Her story shows everything could be different.
Transgender and non-binary people are often excluded from the conversation on "period poverty."
Stigma leaves many without the products or knowledge they need to maintain a healthy period, a new reporting project finds.
