Suzette Brewer of the Cherokee Nation examines the widespread sterilization of Indigenous people and their centuries-long fight for reproductive freedom.
Health Equity & Social Justice
On the Lummi Nation, youth suicide risk is met with crisis teams and cultural reconnection like canoe pulling. Tribes are adapting prevention models to strengthen belonging and resilience.
Tribal communities are turning to culturally centered treatment — combining ceremony, traditional practices and mental health care — to address a crisis rooted in generations of historical trauma.
Illinois prisons were ordered to improve health care for inmates. They've spent seven years failing.
Even though the Illinois Department of Corrections has been under a consent decree since 2019, the state continues to fail to provide adequate medical and dental care to incarcerated people, according to reports from an independent court monitor, legal experts and people held in Illinois prisons.
Without driving alternatives, seniors — especially in rural and low-income areas — face isolation, depression and health risks.
Crash-test dummies have long been designed around male bodies, putting women at higher injury risk. New female models represent progress but still fail to reflect most women.
Indigenous Angelenos speaking Zapotec, Mixtec, or K'iche' face a triple language barrier in healthcare — and immigration raids are making an already impossible situation more dangerous.
Native Californian medical students are reclaiming healthcare for their communities — one pipeline program at a time — as AI/AN life expectancy sits nearly a decade below the national average.
Black women face higher fibroid rates and worse outcomes. While advocates are pushing for more research and visibility, journalism can help show what’s driving the disparity — and what needs to change.
Cesar Vasquez, who has supported families of undocumented immigrants since age 14, has become a community lifeline — and a known ICE target.