Why we despise the phrase “breast is best”
Our work as breastfeeding advocates and researchers has shown that hospitals need to step up to better support Black and Brown mothers.
Voter apathy is real. Here’s how Black organizers are tackling it.
“We can’t bark at people to go to the ballot box when we’re not acknowledging what they’re going through,” one advocate says.
Breastfeeding While Black
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For Muslim women to get the health care they deserve, doctors need to listen
Clear communication and cultural competency in health care can help Muslim women avoid a harrowing trip to the doctor.
A patient called me a racial slur. Unfortunately, my experience is universal.
Racism from patients is a violent rite of passage for Black doctors. So are the excuses and dismissals from White colleagues.
Reporting on systems of racial inequity and investigating how to break them
Reparations are a regular part of American history — just not for Black people
Farmers and investors receive federal reparations. Cornell William Brooks argues that reparations for Black people should be next.
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Netflix’s “Unlocked” reveals the fallacy of open-door prisons
Opening the prison cells of incarcerated people shouldn’t be considered a “success.” We need to throw away the whole prison industrial complex.
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Untold histories, past lives, and stories that point us toward an antiracist future
He published the first abolitionist newspaper in America. He was also an enslaver.
When The Emancipator was first published in 1820, its original owner had to answer for why he owned Nancy and her five children.
As climate change fractures communities, folklorists help stitch them back together
From Appalachia to the Bayou to the desert Southwest, here’s how culture can teach us about adapting to a warmer world.
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