Features & Essays

Healthy Futures: How Wellness Became A Market

Healthy Futures: A Healthy Future Requires Economic Justice

Healthy Futures: The Ancestral Practice of Doula Care Could Be the Future of Maternal Health for Black Moms

Vox: The FDA made mail-order abortion pills legal. Access is still a nightmare.

538: How My Fitness Tracker Turned Me Against Myself

Slate: It’s Not Too Late to Save Black Lives

HuffPost: Even Breathing Is A Risk In One Of Orlando's Poorest Neighborhoods

HuffPost: Andrew Gillum Is At Home With His Blackness

Research Reports

New America: A Glimpse of Stability: The Impact of Pandemic Aid on Families in Poverty

New America: The U.S. Black Maternal and Child Health Crisis Is Centuries in the Making

New America: Eviction Is One Of The Biggest Health Risks Facing Black Children

Commentary & Analysis

New America: Understanding the Impact of Supreme Court Rulings on Reproductive Rights

New America: On the Connection Between Care Policy and Wellness

The Washington Post: The stories of these children will change the way you think about poverty

The Cut: Do Greens Powders Actually Do Anything?

Slate: High on the Hog Tastes Like Life

Slate: In Praise of Vulnerable Black Women

Written Interviews

Healthy Futures: Why Are We Still Using Guidelines From the 1980s to Treat Today’s Moms?

Vox: What wellness means for Black women (with DeJa Love, CEO of the Black Women’s Wellness Agency)

New America: A Year After Dobbs (with researchers Jackie Jahn and Alina Schnake-Mahl, and Better Life Lab Senior Fellow Vicki Shabo)

Slate: How Racial Health Disparities Will Play Out in the Pandemic (with Dr. Uche Blackstock, a physician, thought leader, and sought-after speaker on bias and racism in medicine)

On Camera

Featuring Dr. Charis Chambers, who discusses the reproductive health and justice issues Black women face.

Featuring Dr. Uche Blackstock on COVID-19 one year later.

Featuring LaTosha Brown, the co-founder of Black Voters Matter, on the power of the Black Southern electorate. 

Featuring Maurice Mitchell, national director for the Working Families Party, who breaks down voter intimidation and misinformation.

Featuring Jamelle Bouie on how the 2020 electoral politics impacted history.