Jeremiah was a 17-year-old in south San Francisco with just three weeks until his high school graduation. For him, graduating would be a triumphant punctuation mark. For the past three years up until this April, California’s...
"Relations between police and Negroes throughout the country are getting worse,” a mid-sixties newscaster intones over images of police arresting young black men, which appear at the outset of Stanley Nelson’s “The Black...
J.D. emerged from his parent's divorce in 2013 a different kid. He'd always been serious, but now he was moody and falling behind in school. "His English teacher described him as a dark cloud of doom," said his mom, Marty Hoffmeister, who asked...
Under cover of darkness, one of Britain’s best-known politicians and a small group of his powerful associates would gather in a clearing in the forest to systematically abuse girls as young as 6, according to allegations by a woman who...
Earlier this year, Maia Szalavitz reported on drug-court judges' refusal to allow defendants to continue their maintenance treatment , putting ailing individuals at risk for recidivism and overdose. In maintenance...
Just two minutes into the first address at the 2015 National Fair Housing Conference on Tuesday, the conversation turned to Show Me a Hero . It was only a matter of time. Housing policy and Winona Ryder just don’t intersect that...
California’s low-income, black and disabled students are more likely to miss school frequently, which can be linked to future achievement gaps and dropout rates, according to a report released Monday. The national report by...
Struggling through an illness is never easy. But studies have shown it is even harder for people who do not have much money, education or other resources. In response, many hospital systems across the country have begun establishing so-called...
Between the ages of 4 and 15, Jonathan Booker was in and out of 13 homeless shelters. His mother was often too busy to care for him, his grandmother tried but found she was too old and didn’t have enough money, and he never knew his father,...
California on Tuesday agreed to end its unlimited isolation of imprisoned gang leaders, restricting a practice that once kept hundreds of inmates in notorious segregation units for a decade or longer. No other state keeps so many inmates...
Texas Senate Bill 1624 took effect yesterday, requiring all incoming students at Texas academic institutions to receive information regarding mental health and suicide prevention services. The passage of SB 1624 can be attributed to the parents...
There has been increasing buzz about “equity” and “racial equity” in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors and among cross-sector collective impact efforts. This is a good thing and our nation’s persistent and...
More people are starting to see mental health as a crucial part of staying well. Nearly 90 percent of American adults value mental and physical health equally, according to a new survey. The findings were part of a nationwide analysis on...
How to reach people with chronic or recurrent depression? In a randomized trial, they benefited from a self-management support service that included regular outreach care management and a self-care group with a combined behavioral and...
Research based on decades of experience in the developing world has identified educational status, especially the status of the mother, as a major predictor of health outcomes and that the literature indicates that the gradient in health...