After a difficult birth and a decade at Pfizer, she left corporate life to fix maternal care for Black women. Her startup, Mae, now partners with Medicaid programs nationwide and is changing how ...

Pregnancy and breastfeeding leave behind long-lived CD8+ T cells that can persist for decades, providing lasting immune surveillance in breast tissue.

The 89-page report, “Whose Abortion Is It? The Harms of State-Mandated Parental Notification for Abortion and Judicial Bypass ...

ACLU letter shows pregnant and postpartum women in immigration custody face denied prenatal care, poor nutrition, and unsafe conditions.

A study led by researchers at Harvard and Mass General Brigham shows stark socioeconomic divides and thousands of unexplained ...

A city mosque will kick off a five-day exhibition on the connection between Islam and Black history in the United States with a panel discussion at Morgan State University. The Muslim Community ...

Polk State College has canceled its Introduction to African-American Studies course, saying it violated state law. The law passed in 2023 restricts general education courses from teaching that ...

Donald Trump claimed "African-American ladies, beautiful ladies" from Chicago are asking him to come to the city, and deploy the National Guard as part of his administration's supposed crime crackdown ...

The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is approximately two times higher in African Americans (AA) compared to white/European-ancestry (EA) individuals living in the U.S. Some of this is due to ...

The Yale department that studies people of African descent in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America has changed its name to the Black Studies Department, after 55 years of being called ...

(RNS) — W. James Abbington Jr., an expert on Black religious music known for his editing, teaching and playing of congregational music, has died at the age of 65. GIA Publications, for whom he worked ...