A 96-year-old veteran was near death. Then he met his social worker. NEW YORK -- The outlook for the patient assigned to Capt. Eric Dungan on May 1 was bleak: George…

COVID-19 is killing black Americans with horrifying precision. Black Americans get the disease at a higher rate than white people do. Retirement homes with black residents become outbreak clusters. Black people…

Jimmy Cobb, a jazz drummer who helped drive Miles Davis’s masterpiece “Kind of Blue,” an album of transcendent lyricism and spontaneity that also became one of the top-selling jazz recordings…

A woman in Texas is facing charges after being seen using a hammer to threaten a Latina doctor and her husband whom she mistakenly referred to being Mexican during a…

The American story as we know it would not exist without the strength of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. A boy landed in the hospital after being beaten…

All 10 patients had underlying conditions that have been shown to worsen infection, including high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity. But genetic factors could also be at play, the team…

Across the country, the coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately hit communities of color, specifically affecting black, Native, and Latino Americans at higher rates than whites. In Mississippi, for example, while black…

Former President Barack Obama said that the death of George Floyd"shouldn't be 'normal' in 2020 America." "It's natural for us to wish for life 'to just get back to normal'…

The pandemic is disproportionately harming U.S. black communities, especially in Louisiana. Economists warn the deaths could be just the start of further setbacks for already vulnerable residents. Spring is usually…

A banner at a Virginia high school intended to celebrate 2020's graduating class is being called racist after students noticed that seniors of color were grouped to create the dark…