Black people’s hair has always sparked debate. But the health threat posed by popular hair products has flown under the radar ...

The very circumstances that made Henry Gaymon such a fitting subject for a story on mental health care also made it very ...

Taken from school at 15, Janay Eustace turned trauma into purpose as a champion of equity in child welfare, especially for ...

The Virginia Department of Social Services has seen a 50% drop in calls to the child abuse and neglect hotline since mid-March, but social workers are concerned that an increase in domestic violence ...

Dozens of mentally incompetent men and women have died awaiting placement in a state hospital, and thousands more have been left for months in jail waiting for a state hospital bed. Glynn Simmons and ...

I am a reporter at the Baltimore Sun covering Baltimore County courts and crime. Previously, I was a state government and politics reporter for The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette. I enjoy reporting on ...

In Cincinnati, many schools are grappling with student suicides. Could a mental health app offer help? A reporter turns to ...

It was a year after George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police officers, and Jessica Washington was investigating another story of racial injustice in Minnesota that had never attracted the same ...

The Center for Health Journalism has teamed with ethnic media organizations in California to report together on health equity, immigrant health, community well-being and gaps in health care in a ...

Jen Christensen barely had time to catch her breath during the first year of the pandemic. As a breaking news writer for CNN’s health and medical unit, she churned out two to three stories a day to ...

The Record Searchlight reviewed 53 of California’s 58 counties with available data. The review showed some jails have death rates double or triple that of their neighbors or other jail systems of ...