This week we’re at home with Alexius Hill, a Memphis-based young mother who chose to give birth at home despite her family and friends’ concerns about doing so. We discuss the stigma around home births and explore the radical work of full-spectrum doulas.
Race and Equity
A reporter explores how the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting the Bay Area's Asian communities.
Despite Hawaii’s reputation as a racial paradise, the state is home to striking income disparities that fall along racial and ethnic lines.
The ugly history of clandestine experiments and abuse of Black patients casts a long shadow.
Refugees need help with mental health care, but are they getting it? A reporter plots a deeper exploration of their plight.
A new study shows the impacts of a 2015 decision to cut health insurance for some of the state’s poorest and sickest residents.
A new reporting project asks, "Why do people of color in an affluent city lack basic medical attention?"
Why was the Navajo Nation overlooked in the face of the pandemic?
The patient was near death. The physician almost missed it — and warns problems like this will grow as the nation expands telehealth without improving access to technology.
In hard-hit Navajo Nation, fighting COVID-19 means addressing a long history of underinvestment and policy neglect.