Despite efforts to contain the plague, the death toll continued to rise. Some suggest that as many as one in eight people succumbed to the disease, though there is a strong indication that this may be ...

The Roman empire was at its height when a deadly disease caused devastation to its population, economy and military prowess.

On this episode of Here and Now, we examine why Black women have the highest percentage of avoidable deaths in the United ...

The Black Death is a plague that changed the world. As the most profound epidemic in human history, the plague claimed the ...

As D-Day drew near, Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff, dispatched a messenger to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in ...

Cedric Dark is a gun-owning emergency physician, a father, and the cousin of a man who was shot to death. This is what he—and ...

In the mid-1980s, the LGBT+ community was awakened to the horrors of a pandemic that most of the world wished to ignore.

For many Black children, asthma and other health problems are ever-present companions in neighborhoods located near dumps, ...

Handling deliveries from Philip Morris to the Hill, I learned Big Tobacco was a major funder of Black ... had the plague. One ...

St Louis mayor Raymond R. Tucker, the quintessential technocrat, sourly watched the votes get tallied. His initiative, backed ...

By Alina Ferguson What I am about to say is really a hot take, pun intended. I think, wholeheartedly, that tea is better than coffee. Tea is relaxing.You sip tea and people watch outside ...

Lonely Quiet Highway and The Great Failure By Alexandra Berrocal Natalie Goldberg woke up at 5 a.m. to go to the zendo, a Japanese meditation hall. She described waking up in the biting cold ...