Why might healthy lifestyle choices wipe out 90% of our risk for having a heart attack, while drugs may only reduce risk by 20% to 30%? On the…
Read more How to Beat Heart Disease Before It Starts | NutritionFacts.orgPresident Donald Trump made major gains with Black voters in 2024. But Black conservative operatives are warning that Republicans shouldn’t take those voters for granted in the midterms…
Read more Donald Trump made big gains with Black voters in 2024. Can Republicans hold them in the midterms?What makes someone suspicious enough to be grabbed by masked federal authorities? Is it a Mexican family eating dinner at a table near a taco truck? Afghan women…
Read more Commentary: It’s not just Latinos. Supreme Court says all brown people are suspiciousThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Political partisans are always dreaming of final victories. Each election raises…
Read more What Does the Working Class Really Want?The Civil War produced two competing narratives, each an attempt to make sense of a conflict that had eradicated the pestilence of slavery. Black Americans who believed in…
Read more How Black Americans Kept Reconstruction AliveHarpers Ferry seemed almost a part of the neighborhood when I was growing up. Granted, it was across the state line, in West Virginia, and slightly more than…
Read more The Men Who Started the WarFor more than half a century, I have been studying the shifting relations between white and Black Americans. My first journal article, published in 1972, when I was…
Read more Black Success, White BacklashThis article originally appeared in Undark Magazine. When Kevin E. Taylor became a pastor 22 years ago, he didn’t expect how often he’d have to help families make…
Read more Where End-of-Life Care Falls ShortA decade’s worth of disappointment has conditioned Black Americans and Democrats to fear voting-rights rulings from the Supreme Court. In 2013, a 5–4 majority invalidated a core tenet…
Read more A Supreme Court Ruling That Could Tip the House“The issue of equity and distribution of Paxlovid is similar to what we saw in the distribution of the vaccine,” she said. “You have to think about…
Read more Black, Hispanic COVID Patients Less Likely to Get Antiviral PaxlovidOct. 7, 2022 — Monkeypox cases in the U.S. disproportionately affect Black Americans, with rates five times higher than among white peers, according to a new report from…
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