The Vulcan Society was founded in 1940 by Wesley Williams, one of the first Black fire chiefs in the country and has long advocated for Black firefighters.

Overview: Nearly 3,000 people died from the attack on the World Trade Center. But the lingering physical and mental health effects have reached far beyond that number. As the nation commemorates the ...

As the nation commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center’s twin towers, the health fallout from the attack still affects thousands of individuals — and ...

Overview: America remembers the passengers who fought back aboard Flight 93. Far fewer know about LeRoy Homer Jr., the Black ...

She boarded Flight 77 to help her students in Washington, D.C. Twenty-five years later, her story lives on through her ...

Black residents demanded a moratorium after Musk’s Colossus expansion. A competing council proposal could make that pause ...

Almost 3 out of 4 respondents to a new Word In Black survey said prices for healthy foods are too high and just over 60% said they don't trust that the food they buy is safe. Black Americans are ...

The “Food Is Medicine” movement argues that poor nutrition is a leading cause of illness, health care spending and lost ...

Injectable PrEP can offer a year’s worth of protection in just two shots–but Black Americans aren't accessing it.

Rev. Al Bailey researched New Horizons Baptist Church as a doctoral student. Now the Baltimore minister is its pastor.

Stephen A. Smith says NABJ’s Thumbs Down Award was “Christmas arriving early.” But his furious reaction to criticism from an organization he once embraced reveals something more interesting about ...

Food connects Black Americans to family, faith and generations past. But affordability, access and health complicate that relationship, revealing how forces far beyond individual choice shape what we ...