NNPA NEWSWIRE — "We are the number one target for this disease. We have pre-existing conditions, and yet we're told to go home when we visit...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — After speaking with small business owners, including minority small business owners, who are facing incredible challenges and uncertainty, I pushed for and helped secure...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Medical experts have also sounded the alarm that the virus could well be transmitted through the air. “Currently available research supports the possibility...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In New York and other locations, public safety prohibits large gatherings, causing St. Patrick's Day parades to be canceled. Broadway is likely to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE —The legislation sets a nationwide goal of achieving a 100 percent clean energy economy by 2050, defined as net-zero climate pollution across all sectors...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — The county Board of Supervisors Sept. 24 unanimously voted its intent to approve a ban on flavored tobacco products, including menthol, despite protests by...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The natural gas and oil industry is projected to create 1.3 million new jobs between 2015 and 2025, with that number growing to...
THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Mayor Randall Woodfin on Thursday said bluntly that “gun violence in the City of Birmingham is a public health crisis.”
THE AFRO — The D.C. Council’s Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety held a roundtable last week to check in on two efforts to curb...
ATLANTA TRIBUNE — With the U.S. federal government shutdown now the longest in history, it’s important to understand what a shutdown means for the health and...
Rupa Marya, M.D., a UCSF professor and co-founder of the #DoNoHarm Coalition, believes police violence must be addressed as a public health crisis. Grassroots efforts around...
ATLANTA (UPI) — Montgomery, Ala., beat out Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis and New Orleans as the most sexually diseased city in the U.S., according to an...
KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Toilets are taken for granted in the industrialized West, but still are a luxury for a third of...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Are you sitting down? In that case, you should probably stand up before reading this. In the first...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Are you sitting down? In that case, you should probably stand up before reading this. In the first...
By Quiana Lewis (Quiana Lewis joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2014 as a program associate, working to build a Culture of Health by...
When her counselor first told her about Berkeley Youth Alternatives, a non-profit organization that supports underserved youth, Tamisha Bradley wasn’t interested. Having lived in three different...