Black women can make all the difference in November. They are the Democrats’ strongest voting bloc and able to tilt the scale enough in battleground states to make or break the Biden-Harris ticket, pollsters say. African-American voters have voted reliably Democrat for decades, and it is Black women who have the highest propensity for turning…
As the world awakens more and more to systemic racism and racial disparities in healthcare, we examine sleep — a key component of health. Are there racial disparities in the amount of shut-eye that Americans get? Do Black adults in the United States get less sleep than white adults, and if so, why? These are…
A group of over 100 Black male leaders is declaring that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “has” to name a Black woman as his running mate.In a letter made public on Monday, the signatories warned the former vice president that “failing to select a Black woman in 2020 means you will lose the election.”WATERS SAYS BIDEN…
Brittney Gilliam was on a girls' trip with her nieces, sister and daughter to get their nails done Sunday morning when suddenly, in a parking lot, they were surrounded by police.The officers, according to a bystander, had their guns drawn, ordered the group of Black women and girls to lay face down while handcuffing some…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…