Special Report: Racial Justice Is Reproductive Justice

Structural Racism in Medicine Worsens the Health of Black Women and Infants

Akilah Wise

California programs are doubling down on efforts to eliminate the medical system's structural racism and support the state's Black women and infants, who face abysmal maternal and infant health outcomes.

White Protesters Fighting Abortion Bans Must Show Up for Black Lives Matter Too

Megan Ellyia Green

White people, and white women in particular, must use the privileges we have to fight against all systems of oppression, even when we’re not directly affected.

Why Media Outlets Cover Racial Reconciliation but Not Racism

Lewis Raven Wallace

In January 2017, national media flocked to the small Georgia city to cover a public apology for a lynching—the first in the country. While there, they completely overlooked LaGrange’s institutional racism problem.

Notes From an Angry Black Hunter: Guns, Genocide, and the Stolen Ground You ‘Own’

Jonathan Hall

When I hunt, usually on white people's land, I wonder if they know who lived there before. Or what would happen if I was just some random Black man on their property.

What We Risk When We Fail to Protect Black Girls

Natasha Crooks & Akilah Wise

Emerging research implicates this systematic lack of protection in the disproportionately high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among Black girls and women.

Why No One Noticed I Was Hungry

Reina Sultan

Disordered eating, especially restricting and anorexia, is too often thought of as a thin, affluent white woman’s problem.

Leading Health Group: Killings by Police Are a Public Health Issue

Dr. Cynthia Greenlee & Laura Huss

Public health activists claimed victory after the American Public Health Association approved a statement recognizing police violence as a public health issue.

Racism Kills: What Community-Level Interventions Can Do About It

Miriam Zoila Pérez

One such program is a school-based model in Portland, Oregon, called 3 to PhD.

Racism Kills: What Cultural Connection Can Do About It

Miriam Zoila Pérez

Certain behaviors and attitudes promote resilience in the face of discrimination for people of color, according to the research that is currently available.

Abolish ICE: Beyond a Slogan

Tina Vasquez

What does it look like to #AbolishICE? Envisioning community-based alternatives to a violent immigration system.