By Amber Dance
Also in this week's roundup: An updated preprint finds that American Indian and Alaska Native populations took the biggest hit to life expectancy of any American race during the pandemic.
People whose maternal care depends on federal dollars can’t get abortions under the Hyde Amendment. What will the end of Roe hold for them?
A reporter reflects on her journey through South Asian grocery stores in the Bay Area, where getting people to talk proved tricky.
A freelancer's neighborhood walks give rise to a story on LA's failure to maintain hygiene stations.
The new hazardous waste site is located in a ZIP code that already is the most polluted in the state.
By Farah Yousry
The vast majority of people with sickle cell disease are Black. Sickle cell researchers, physicians and patients believe these disparities exist – and persist – because of systemic racism.
Getting to and from dialysis is already a challenge for some rural Hawaii residents. Sea level rise is expected to make things worse.
By Amber Dance
Also, a new study finds Black patients were significantly less likely to qualify for needed treatment based on pulse oximeter readings than white patients in Baltimore hospitals.
"I was so fixated on finding a Latino student it hadn’t dawned on me that there might be another way to tell the story."
A reporter finds "the data was just a glimpse of the full picture" while covering school-based juvenile justice complaints.
Loopholes allow wealthier families and attorneys to avoid estate recovery, and in some counties the program disproportionately affects people of color.
