From plantation-era exploitation to menthol marketing, the tobacco industry has targeted Black Americans for generations. Now, a growing movement is pushing back.
The tobacco industry's relationship with Black America did not begin with advertising. It began with forced labor, centuries ago, when enslaved people cultivated tobacco on Southern plantations. What followed was not a break…
There's a particular kind of frustration that comes from sitting across from a doctor, carefully describing symptoms that have been disrupting daily life, only to be told it's probably just stress or worse, that nothing is really wrong at all. For many patients, that experience has a name: medical gaslighting.
What medical gaslighting actually means…
New ACOG guidelines acknowledge that racial bias has long delayed endometriosis diagnoses in Black women and call on the medical system to do better.
For generations, Black women living with debilitating pelvic pain have walked into doctors' offices and walked out without answers. They were told the pain was just cramps. They were advised to…

