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Historically Black colleges and universities are today receiving enormous amounts of resources — from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott’s transformative multimillion-dollar donations to billions of federal dollars flowing to HBCUs through COVID-19 relief funding. Though these investments…

Foundations across the United States have increased funding for racial equity and social justice over the last few years, but more needs to be done to support the organizations at…

People of color and low-income communities in the U.S. are at greater risk for exposure to pesticides, a new study has found. While this is the case for many environmental pollutants,…

Global vaccination coverage is on a sharp decline, according to a new report from UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO). The findings, published on Friday, show the biggest drop in…

Midsummer is the time for forecasts of the size of this year’s “dead zones” and algal blooms in major lakes and bays. Will the Gulf of Mexico dead zone be…

If police are called to a scene, there’s a pretty good chance somebody there is having a bad day. That scene might represent a singularly traumatic moment in the life…

Today, July 14, would have been Shafilea Ahmed’s 36th birthday. She isn’t here to celebrate it, however, because she was murdered by her parents 19 years ago in a so-called “honor…

A recent Lancet study, offering the first comprehensive assessment of the global burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), finds 1.27 million deaths were directly attributable to bacterial AMR in 2019. The study notes…

Bodily autonomy, the ability for individuals to make choices about their bodies without fear, violence, or coercion, is not afforded to all people equally. Laws and economic and social barriers…

Our #AskHer series is an interview with our partners, community members, and supporters who work tirelessly for women and girls. This interview is with Alana Brown, Executive Director of The Safe…

The United Nations projects that some 18 million people will be displaced as a result of Russia’s war on Ukraine. As of this writing, an estimated 25 percent of the nation’s people…

Popular culture tends to focus on a few elements of pregnancy: morning sickness, the growing baby bump, and, of course, mood swings. But that ignores more dangerous, less well-known conditions associated with pregnancy.…