Lifestyle

How does hair loss harm Black women, and what can be done to learn to accept the changes to their scalp health?

A new lawsuit demands Lone Star State officials set 85 degrees as the maximum temperature for Texas prisoners housed in cells without air conditioning.

While violence in houses of worship isn’t new, attacks have more than doubled since ’22 — including an attempted shooting near Pittsburgh last weekend.

Federal regulators face a growing challenge — how to prevent rogue health insurance agents from switching unknowing consumers’ Obamacare coverage without making the enrollment process so cumbersome that enrollment declines.

With an increase in Black youth suicide rates, it’s more important than ever to normalize the conversation on mental health.

Dating apps promise users the perfect match. But what happens when algorithms that power them are built on racist foundations?

People across the nation claim cancer-causing emissions from local sterilizing plants are making them sick. It’s an example of environmental racism, say residents of one predominantly Black area in southwest Memphis, Tennessee, where life expectancy is much shorter than county and state averages.

Cattle across the country are infected by the H5N1 bird flu. The virus isn’t spreading among people — but if it evolves to do that, fears of another pandemic could be realized.

Decriminalization has led to cannabis that’s several times more powerful than it was decades ago — and researchers are worried.

The EDUCATE Act would amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit medical schools from getting federal funding if they adopt policies or requirements related to DEI, including promoting beliefs that a person’s sex, race, ethnicity or skin color makes them a member of an oppressed group, or that the US is a “systemically” racist country.