New vaccine restrictions could disproportionately affect Black communities, leading to increased health risks and COVID-19 related deaths.

Part of the increase is due to better diagnosis methods, an expert says. But the burden of illness is greater, too.

Black holes are infamous for being invisible. But thanks to a new technique from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team, ...

Some things have changed for the better in Minneapolis since Memorial Day 2020, when a police officer murdered George Floyd. Some have not.

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They all died of COVID-19 in 2020. Photograph by Bethany Mollenkof ... now will still show disparities and gaps between white Americans and Black and brown Americans are profound and significant ...

Black Michiganders have died at a rate three times higher from COVID-19 than white residents, state data shows. Since March, 582,719 Michiganders have contracted COVID-19 and 15,396 have died ...

Among white households that ... A larger number of Black households had to borrow money to get through the economic downturn brought by COVID-19, with roughly 46% of those who tapped their ...

While it's generally understood that social inequality and racism — not genetics — drive the racial disparities that have had White Americans dying of COVID-19 at lower rates than Black ...