Gun violence disproportionately affects African American communities, particularly young men, due to systemic issues such as ...

Imagine a society in which almost 1 in 4 African-Americans are in poverty; for white people, the number is less than 1 in 10 (Proctor et al., 12). Imagine that society in which not only black children ...

Most poverty-fighting efforts focus on meeting basic material needs, such as food and shelter. But this overlooks the ...

Kerner Report thirty years later / Fred R. Harris -- Urban poverty, welfare reform, and child development / Greg J. Duncan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- Poverty as a public health issue : since the Kerner ...

Obesity is associated with some of the most serious health problems facing Americans, including Type 2 diabetes, high blood ...

Race and the American city : the Kerner Commission Report in retrospect / John Charles Boger -- America's urban crisis : symptoms., causes, and solutions / Peter Dreier -- The urban policy challenge : ...

The following editorial is from the opinion page of The Republican newspaper in Springfield. It reflects views of the newspaper’s leadership and not necessarily those of MassLive. Readers are invited ...

People with lower incomes and people from racial and ethnic historically underrepresented groups in clinical studies are more ...

Investigators at Mass General Brigham have found that cases of child abuse and neglect in the United States have declined ...

Secretary General, Michael Mabikke, has called for renewed government attention on urban poverty and education equity as the 2026 elections approach.Speaking during the Makindye East Parliamentary ...