racial disparities

In this interview, Dr. Gayle Brooks, clinical director for The Renfrew Center, discusses triggers and stigmas involved in receiving treatment.

A new investment fund launched by one of the few Black venture capitalists in health care is focused on backing Black entrepreneurs. And the investors include some of the biggest names in for-profit health care.

Community leaders saw early in the pandemic that the city's residents of color were being hit hard by COVID-19. They worked with data analysts to show just how hard, where and why.

Sylvie Naar says when she found out her team received a $3 million NIH grant, she was in tears "because it was like we were actually getting funded to do something about racism in the world."

A recent analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation revealed the pandemic has widened existing disparities in health and well-being as well as in academic performance between children of color and white children.

During the pandemic, many of the youngest Americans have fallen behind socially, academically and emotionally in ways that could harm their physical and mental health for years.

The church, in the College Hill neighborhood of Tampa, vaccinated 590 people with their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

Until a vaccine can be more widely distributed, doctors are urging people to keep wearing masks and social distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Among the bottom fifth of income earners, who are more likely to be black and Latino, about 35% of them lost their jobs.

In a study of the early coronavirus epidemic in the U.S., a third of people who were hospitalized were African American. Top risk factors were high blood pressure and obesity.