Credit: LA Johnson.NPR Imagine you're a principal, walking through the crowded halls of your school. You're on your way to 11th grade chemistry, to watch a science lab. They're expecting you in two minutes. It already feels like a long day and it's...
Despite the strides the LGBTQ community has made in the United States over the last year, juvenile justice and foster care systems are still not equitable for LGBTQ youth, who also combat homelessness. This was the thrust of a discussion...
The Ferguson Commission tasked with looking at the root causes of the unrest following the shooting of death of Michael Brown has released its final report —and it’s a stark, remarkable read. The 16 members...
Besides " driving while black ," and the more recently coined " laughing while black ," new research has revealed another activity people of color would be particularly wise to avoid: suffering a heart attack. The American Heart Association...
If getting through the work day (let alone the whole week) feels like a painful slog, maybe your little respites need some tweaking. You might be failing to make the most of your work-day breaks. A new study published in...
Wendy Chang’s friends could recognize her laugh from a distance. Even if they didn’t see her right away, they knew from the boisterous sound that echoed down Harvard’s hallways that Chang would soon appear, her head thrown...
On Christmas Eve, 2007, a blond woman in her late 30s arrived at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, with a crying newborn in her arms. The woman had given birth alone at home and tied off the umbilical cord with a rubber band....
We’ve all seen the commercials: gentle, soothing music playing over a reassuring voice that tells you that this specific rehab center is going to change your life. Because, after all, it’s changed his. Inpatient rehab centers offer...
Christine Rodriguez vividly recalls her early school years. A native of Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, a working-class predominantly black and Latino section of New York City, her most vivid memories of elementary school...
Los Angeles County’s Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Center provided a hormonal birth control implant to a foster youth in its care for the first time last week, part of a new program to offer free long-acting reversible contraceptives...
We are a hostile nation when it comes to our children. Policies are the product of a state or nation’s values, beliefs and norms. Generally speaking, our policies on crime and punishment don’t place much value on our children....
Dr. Thomas R. Insel, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health, announced on Tuesday that he planned to step down in November, ending his 13-year tenure at the helm of the world’s leading funder of behavioral-health research...
A chart in the accompanying report from the state’s Office of Child Advocate tallies 55 instances of suicidal or self-harming behavior during a year in the same facilities. The release of the video and report today is the...
In the comedy world, it's a commonly held belief that there's a dark side to being funny — and Kelly Carlin is living proof. The daughter of the late comic genius George Carlin has just written a memoir about her childhood. It's...
Richard Cabral's neck, chest and arms are covered with tattoos. They depict Mexican gang culture, his friends, uncles, even his daughter Bella. Cabral's intense look and his powerful acting have landed him a lot of TV roles, but his path to...