Alvin F. Poussaint, Pioneering Expert on Black Mental Health, Dies at 90
A psychiatrist at Harvard and an adviser to Jesse Jackson and Bill Cosby, he challenged Black Americans to stand up to ...
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin15h
Dr. Howard Inghram was a local leader and San Bernardino County’s first Black doctor
Dr. Howard D. Inghram was born June 6, 1899, to Henry and Mary Inghram. His parents, who were living on Sixth Street, were ...
Greek City Times16h
A deadly plague swept through Athens during the Peloponnesian War
This mysterious epidemic struck Athens, a city-state embroiled in a fierce conflict with Sparta. Historians estimate that the ...
BlackDoctor17h
Breaking the Silence on HS: Why Black Americans Deserve Better Care
Many Black Americans are living with hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) without even knowing it—often dismissed by doctors.
NC’s first Black physician also blazed trails as businessman, candidate for Raleigh mayor
Dr. Manassa Thomas Pope became a trailblazer in North Carolina: he was the first Black physician in the state. He also was a ...
The New Yorker23h
An 1887 Opera by a Black Composer Finally Surfaces
The Philadelphia Orchestra recorded the symphonies of the early-twentieth-century Black composer Florence Price. The National ...
16 of the Best Movies About Outbreaks and Pandemics
Take a look back at movies that explore worlds in which viruses and diseases (or related metaphors) run rampant.
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Weird Plague 'Cures' (The Black Death)
The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and ...
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Scientists Just Discovered The First Known Case Of The Plague In A 5,000-Year-Old Skeleton
"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...
The Mancunion14d
The Black Death: Plague protocol in medieval times to the modern age
The Black Death is a disease I am sure most of us have heard of, with its bursting pustules, rats, and overwhelming death ...
PBS14d
History of the Death Penalty
[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...