People of color are more likely to get sick and die from coronavirus. Will taking part in mass protests increase their risk — or force the nation to address bias and inequities that endanger Black lives?
Children & Families
Rural women in Alaska must travel long distances for prenatal care and hospital births. Now, COVID-19 has shut down major routes and reduced transportation.
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to disproportionately affect Latinos. Although doctors continue to advance with physical recovery therapies after infection, little is known about the consequences in mental health.
Child welfare is an already stressed system in Native communities, leaving children even more susceptible to the impacts of COVID-19.
How many other environmental disasters like the West Calumet Housing Complex are still undiscovered?
U.S.-Mexico border communities are facing dire challenges as the pandemic escalates.
Mimi Luther Dreads the Prospect of Flu Season Mixed With a Pandemic. She Begs You to Get a Flu Shot.
How Oregon can avoid the “super-duper trifecta of misery.”
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.
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.