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A Harvard University research team led by scientists at the school’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health conducted randomized surveys of households in Puerto Rico about their experiences during and after Hurricane Maria. From those surveys, researches concluded that somewhere around 4,645 “excess deaths” are related to the hurricane.

Puerto Rico’s governor Ricardo Rossello has ordered an official review of the death toll of Hurricane Maria on the island due to a report cited by the New York Times that sets the deceased at well over 1,000 people. The official toll from September was set at 64 people, which is an enormous gap. Rossello […]

One of the worst flooding disasters in Africa has displaced thousands of residents in Sierra Leone and brought the death toll close to 500. Flooding in the area resulted in a landslide last week when a side of Mount Sugar Loaf collapsed on Monday, according to Al Jazeera.

There’s still no clear chain of responsibility in regards to one of the deadliest fires in Oakland, Ca. As of now, the death toll has reached 36 after a fire broke out at a warehouse this past Friday. 

I imagine that I would be a historian, a social librarian of sorts, whenever Black liberation is realized, and I imagine that my role wouldn’t look much different from the work I am already doing: Helping to keep Black histories. For as long as I’ve been aware of my Blackness as a threat to whiteness […]

While experts say many forms of cancer are decreasing, federal researchers state that uterine cancer is rising. And African American women are experiencing the biggest toll of that increase.

I felt my heart sink when Kalief Browder’s name suddenly began trending on Twitter in June of last year. Just a couple years older than I am, Browder ended his life after suffering through three years of being beaten and held in solitary confinement in a Rikers Island prison for a crime he did not […]

In support of burgeoning protests against Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir’s oppressive government, some of the country’s journalists and doctors have gone on a strike.

This week, the Carolinas were hit by a category 4 storm, Hurricane Florence. As rivers continue to rise, the total death toll is officially at 32. Among those who died, two women who were mental health patients and detainees, and were shackled inside a Sheriff’s van, drowned as law deputies were rescued.

According to reports from Think Progress, water, food, baby supplies, Tylenol, and other items were found abandoned in ten trailers packed full of donations for Puerto Ricans affected by Hurricane Maria. The items donated were allegedly found rotting in a rat-infested environment at a state elections office parking lot on the island. Authorities have already […]

During the weekend, Somali people, Muslim people, and people throughout the world with functional empathy, began a grieving process for those most impacted by an act of terrorism in a bustling East African area. On Saturday, a bomb attack was carried out—via an explosives-packed truck—in the capital city of Mogadishu. The attack caused an estimated […]

On an average day in an average month, the presence of misogynoir, even if frequent, is little more than irritating. The typical manifestations—mainly incidents in which a man of virtually any racial background gives disparaging remarks about Black women à la Bill O’Reilly—often make for an interesting, yet brief, groupchat-worthy discussion chock full of eyerolls. […]