Maternal mortality rates for American women rose again in 2021, hitting Black women particularly hard, according to newly released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There were 32.9 deaths for every 100,000 live births in 2021, up from 23.8 in 2020 and 20.1 in 2019, per the CDC. Among Black women, the maternal […]
Federal actions during the pandemic led to uninsured rates falling to to record lows, especially among Black and Hispanic people, but a new report released by the Commonwealth Fund suggests these improvements are vulnerable to being lost once the COVID-19 public health emergency officially ends in less than two months. Congress passed the Families First […]
LGBTQ activists and leaders are sounding alarm bells over a recent report on rising suicide rates among Black nonbinary and transgender youth, which many attribute to the spread of laws that target transgender identities. A quarter of Black transgender and nonbinary youth attempted suicide last year, according to a report last month from the Trevor Project, a […]
A disproportionately low number of Black individuals received the mpox vaccine during the public health emergency for the virus, which lasted for several months before ending earlier this year. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released a report on Wednesday that found Black people made up one-third of all new mpox cases from May, when the […]
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