Every ambitious reporter wants to move beyond stories describing problems to stories that spur solutions to problems. But how?
Race and Equity
The American justice system is more likely to criminalize children of color instead of understanding their behavior, a leading juvenile justice advocate told a journalists this week.
In Washington, D.C., the rush to capitalize on the influx of more affluent residents is having long-term effects on the health of residents young and old.
Today’s San Francisco is both a microcosm of the challenge facing African-American public school students and a beacon for potential change.
This article was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
This project received support from the Center for Health Journalism's California Fellowship and its Fund for Journalism on Child Well-being....
KPCC’s Priska Neely reports on one of the reasons it has been so hard to bring down the black infant mortality rate: systemic racism is at the heart of the issue.
The Neighborhood Atlas gives journalists an intriguing new tool to visualize how social advantages vary across cities and regions.
This project received support from the Center for Health Journalism's California Fellowship and its Fund for Journalism on Child Well-being.
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Black babies die at twice the rate of white babies. My family is part of this statistic
America's black babies are pay
The Castlemont neighborhood in East Oakland is known as a Best Babies Zone. The idea of this initiative is that improving life for everyone in the community will ultimately save babies.