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Increasingly extreme heat waves will imperil India’s development goals and slow economic growth, new research shows…

Turnout for school events has been sparse, but a student concert packed our gym.

Ten years after the collapse at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, the garment industry’s deadliest disaster, reforms are incomplete. The opaqueness of today’s complex supply chain is part of the problem.

A nationwide coalition of city leaders and advocacy groups are urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate the practice of “digital redlining,” which they said has resulted in a gaping…

The US prison population fell during the early months of COVID-19, but the percentage of incarcerated Black people rose.

At some schools, 25% or more of kids reported misusing prescription stimulants in the past year, according to a new study.

People of color are far more likely to breathe heavily polluted air than white people, the American Lung Association’s 2023 State of the Air report shows.

How can we best balance healthcare and profits?

New research points to feelings of failure, hopelessness, loneliness and sadness as some of the potential reasons Black young people are considering or carrying out suicide at unprecedented rates.

The 2021 Frontiers of Social Innovation Conference: “People, Power, Resources: Enacting an Equitable Future” featured senior leaders of nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, academia, business, and government addressing how the social innovation community can…

Contrary to claims by anti-vaccine proponents, COVID-19 vaccines pose only a trivial risk of blood clots, new research shows.

A program that trains local doctors to diagnose autism in children could increase access to therapies and intervention.