There is a conversation America continues to avoid: the complicated relationship between Black women and white women, and the ways racism can be learned, normalized, protected, and carried from one institution into another. The disrespect does not suddenly appear when women enter the workplace. Bias can begin much earlier—in homes, communities, schools, friendships, and social circles where stereotypes about Black women are repeated or simply left unchallenged. A young white girl who learns,...

I have spent years thinking about healthcare not simply as an industry, but as an ecosystem. And I am worried about that ecosystem. We are living through a period of extraordinary change: recurring food, drug and medical-product recalls; declining confidence in vaccines; environmental changes affecting the air we breathe, the water we depend upon and the communities in which we live; rising healthcare costs; and growing distrust of the institutions responsible for protecting public health. At...

Taking Care in the Role of Care Giving By Meta J. Mereday While the life expectancy of African Americans continues to remain below that...