Race and Equity

Hear the brave voices of those who went on the record about their experiences being criminalized and sexualized.

I spent months talking with Black folks for my series, “Lost Innocence: The Adultification of Black Children.” Here’s what I learned.

Black babies more at risk of early death in Mecklenburg.

Stanford's Maya Rossin-Slater unpacks her team's landmark study, which finds even rich Black mothers are more likely to have worse birth outcomes than their white counterparts.

Capital B explores why Black people are more likely to die and experience severe health complications related to childbirth, an issue highlighted in our project about Georgia’s maternal care deserts.

Here's how we navigated Georgia's lack of data transparency.

Fatal errors and lack of adequate medical care in immigration detention centers bring suffering to detainees and their families.

Black girls are so often viewed as sex objects that the blame is shifted to the girls being sexualized instead of the adults.

1 in 4 Black girls will be sexually abused before age 18. When the women we spoke to told their parents, they weren’t protected.

In and out of schools, Black youth fear for their lives. And, for one teen in California, that fear comes every time he gets in his car.