Race and Equity

Because of contract disputes, cost and legislative hurdles, it will likely take years before the remainder of the city’s tens of thousands of lead pipes are replaced. In the meantime, experts say residents should take precautions like water filters.

While mounting pressures cut across the profession, they fall heaviest on freelancers, self-employed journalists and those from community and ethnic media.

Inside detention centers and federal buildings like Manhattan’s 26 Federal Plaza, children are separated from their parents, held in undisclosed locations, and left with emotional and physical wounds.

Advocates are particularly incensed that decision-makers have mostly shuttered schools in the poorest part of town — essentially creating school deserts in an area where families often have no car or share one.

While Black gay and bisexual men experience higher rates of HIV, PrEP remains less accessible to many in this community.

There’s growing evidence that medicine risks losing talent from poor and working-class, Black and Latino communities. Ultimately, patient care will suffer as a result.

Even in states that require products to be supplied, advocates say uneven rules and lax enforcement leave women scrambling.

Crash data revealed where pedestrian deaths happen, but on-the-ground reporting exposed invisible injuries, design flaws, and survivor trauma that databases alone can’t capture.

Amid ICE raids on California’s Central Coast, a reporter pivots to focus on how immigration enforcement, pesticide exposure and fear endanger farmworker families’ health.

In a state known for innovation, maternal deaths still fall hardest on Black, Indigenous and low-income families.