The story was co-published with The Sacramento Observer as part of the 2024 Ethnic Media Collaborative, Healing California. Telling someone they don’t “look their age” is typically received as a ...

The term “weathering” is used to describe the deterioration of Black people’s health that stems from the constant stress caused by continued racism and discrimination. Black Americans have weathered ...

Like many Black teens across the country, Duchess-Angelica Wright struggles to maintain her mental health. As a young Black ...

Glynn Simmons and Richard Phillips do not know each other, but they have much in common. In 1971, Phillips was imprisoned for homicide in Detroit, Michigan. At the time of his sentencing, he was 25 ...

Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles is home for about 3,800 unhoused Angelenos. Many of the inhabitants of the 50-block area live in tents or on the streets. The longer someone lives in such improvised ...

President Trump’s sweeping orders on immigration and deportation orders are having deep effects on the mental health and well-being of immigrant communities across the nation. With anti-immigrant ...

The Impact Fund for Reporting on Health Equity and Health Systems supports ambitious investigative or explanatory projects on systemic racism in public health, health care policy and the practice of ...

The Impact Fund for Reporting on Health Equity and Health Systems supports ambitious investigative and explanatory projects on systemic inequities in public health, health care policy and the practice ...

Our California Fellowship is designed to support reporters in the Golden State pursuing ambitious, enterprising projects on overlooked health and health equity issues. You decide what stories need to ...

Our Data Fellowship offers journalists an opportunity to transform their reporting by training them to “interview the data” as if it were a human source. They finish the five-month program equipped ...

Wren Farrell is the emergency and disaster preparedness reporter for KALW. In 2023, he joined UC Berkeley's inaugural class of the California Local News Fellowship. For the California Health Equity ...