FILE - Lady Justice statue, depicting a seated, blindfolded woman holding a sword, stands outside the Supreme Court in Brasilia, Brazil, Sept. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File) RIO DE JANEIRO (CN ...

San Francisco voted Tuesday to formally apologize to Black residents after decades of "institutional racism." All 11 of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors signed on as sponsors of the resolution ...

The October issue of Health Affairs examines the multifaceted aspects of structural racism in health care, exploring historical roots, policy implications, public biases, innovative solutions, and ...

Hospital equity officers have become critical leaders in the effort to address the determinants of health care disparities, including structural racism. In this mixed-methods study, we surveyed a ...

If Rohith Vemula were alive in 2026, he would be around thirty-six years old. One can imagine him as a teacher, a public ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. The long-drawn-out process of science can mean that work is published ...

In countries and communities around the world there are organizers, leaders, and experts who are working to remove the barriers to health that are rooted in racism and structural discrimination. They ...

Media framing of racial issues has changed since the George Floyd protests. ByErika Franklin Fowler and Neil Lewis Jr. Almost five years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, ...

The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements, and Population Health Equity at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University has been selected to lead a groundbreaking $6 million project ...

A person is only about 20% responsible for their own relative healthiness, MSNBC guest Dr. Uché Blackstock told host Charles Coleman Jr. on Saturday’s Velshi. The rest of what affects an individual’s ...

Structural racism could be a factor in mass shootings according to a recent study released in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Surgery Wednesday. Researchers at Tulane University ...