Only 6% of Black Americans Have Been Vaccinated. Here’s How Biden Is Trying to Change That.
Medical experts say it will take a concerted effort to meet the challenges of rebuilding trust and ensuring vaccine access for communities of color.
Medical experts say it will take a concerted effort to meet the challenges of rebuilding trust and ensuring vaccine access for communities of color.
Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos left the department’s funding for low-income schools, protections for students with disabilities, and rights for survivors under Title IX in shambles.
Of the millions of vaccines administered in the United States, only 71 people have had a serious reaction.
The bill would double the federal minimum wage. A new study says it could also help reduce infant mortalities.
Janet Yellen received bipartisan support in her historic appointment as secretary of the Treasury Tuesday. She’s aiming her first big policies at alleviating the economic suffering of women, who saw major losses in the pandemic’s unemployment crisis.
Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of the first coronavirus patient being documented in the United States.
The Court issued its first abortion decision since Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed, and it stands to unfairly burden people of color and those living in rural areas by requiring them to pick up abortion medications in person.
People fighting cancer are now eligible for priority COVID vaccination. But the benefit must be weighed against individual health status and doctor recommendations, experts say.
Wednesday's uprising drove home a painful and obvious point: Police exercise a level of moderation when facing whites that is hardly ever extended to people of color.
"The president and his allies are playing with fire," Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse wrote on Facebook last month.