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Empty infant beds sit gathered in a corner in a quiet maternity ward at rural Madera Community Hospital which closed in January 2023 creating a lack of healthcare services for the blue collar Central Valley agricultural community in Madera, California.

Mississippi’s Infant Mortality Crisis Raises Alarms

by Jennifer Porter Gore August 25, 2025August 26, 2025

A female doctor is giving a Black female pregnant woman an ultrasound examination.

Solving the U.S. Black Maternal Health Crisis Could Save Lives and Dollars

by Jennifer Porter Gore August 25, 2025August 25, 2025

Blurry interior of a grocery store aisle behind large red Recall text

No, It’s Not Sci-Fi: Radioactive Shrimp Recalled From Walmart

by Jennifer Porter Gore August 20, 2025August 23, 2025

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - MAY 28: A sign for a Dollar General store is seen on May 28, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. A Georgia pastor, who called for a boycott of Target stores, has called for an electronic protest of Dollar General, designed to flood the discount retailer's email account and phone lines to get it to change course on DEI initiatives.

This Tainted-Food Recall Might Affect Your Morning Coffee

by Jennifer Porter Gore August 14, 2025August 15, 2025

Sha'carri Richardson looks across to Daryll Neita of Team Great Britain before she accelerates to the line to win the Women's 4 x 100m Relay Final for the USA on day fourteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 09, 2024 in Paris, France.

What Sha’Carri Richardson’s Arrest Reveals About Black Men and Abuse

by Jennifer Porter Gore August 14, 2025August 26, 2025

System of neurons with glowing connections on black background.

How’s Your Brain? It Might Be Paying the ‘Black Tax’

by Jennifer Porter Gore August 12, 2025August 12, 2025

Healh and Human Services Secretary John F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, has dirupted the trust between parents and the government's back-to-school vacciine routine — once a time-honored back-to-school ritual. Experts say the confusion threatens to increase the risk of Black children being infected with communicable diseases like COVID-19 and could keep them out of school.

RFK Jr.’s Mixed Vax Signals Put Black Schoolkids at Higher Risk

by Jennifer Porter Gore August 7, 2025August 14, 2025

Directly above view of many multi colored and multi shape pills on a blue colored background. Full frame shot.

Black OD Death Rates Are High. They Just Might Get Worse

by Jennifer Porter Gore July 31, 2025August 1, 2025

Nurses at Ascension St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, Md., hold a one-day strike on July 24.

Nurses Hold History-Making Strike at Baltimore Hospital

by Jennifer Porter Gore July 24, 2025July 24, 2025

Malcolm Jamal Warner accidentally drowned in costa rica

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Tributes Pour in for Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Dead at 54

by Jennifer Porter Gore July 21, 2025July 29, 2025