Linda Villarosa

To report on the dangers of hair straightening products, one writer recalled her childhood — and that of other Black women.

Widely used relaxers are a health threat to many Black women.

They’ve been linked to reproductive disorders and cancers. Why are they still being marketed so aggressively to Black women?

A growing body of evidence shows a link between these products and a number of health disorders in Black women.

In “We Refuse,” Kellie Carter Jackson explores the many forms of activism that oppressed people have resorted to and offers a more nuanced picture of their lives.

Why our definitions of what counts as “unhoused” aren’t adequate.

In “Madness,” the journalist Antonia Hylton explores the hidden history of Crownsville Hospital, and America’s continuing failure to care for Black minds.

In “The People’s Hospital,” Ricardo Nuila explores the ways in which a space for those stranded by the American health care system serves as an unlikely model.

Helen Rappaport’s “In Search of Mary Seacole” gives a Black nursing legend her due.

As young girls, the Relf sisters were sterilized without consent. What does the government owe them — and the thousands of other living victims?

“Three Girls From Bronzeville” follows three close-knit children as they grow up to become radically different women.

How did a Promised Land to generations of Black families become a community of lost lives?

For the Zulu club, a black social organization in New Orleans, Mardi Gras was a joy. The coronavirus made it a tragedy.

African-Americans are 75 percent more likely than others to live near facilities that produce hazardous waste. Can a grass-roots environmental-justice movement make a difference?

Biological fallacies were used to justify slavery. Why can’t doctors let them go?

The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.

Why do America’s black gay and bisexual men have a higher H.I.V. rate than any country in the world?

Having a colonoscopy is bad enough, but should you also have to worry that your doctor’s skills are not up to snuff?