Rossana Pérez, healer and activist in the Salvadoran community of Los Angeles, talks about the transgenerational trauma that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed.
COVID-19 ravaged Indigenous tribes in New Mexico. State and federal data reveal how a long legacy of uranium exposure may have made them uniquely vulnerable.
Reflecting on the changes that have occurred during the pandemic, Dr. Manuel Pastor discusses how society can reverse the bad and build on the good. ...
L.A. County’s labor federation, spurred by the pandemic, will launch a massive mutual aid initiative to address hunger, housing insecurity and other community needs.
Agricultural workers in New York just formed the state’s first farmworker union, but a new law guaranteeing overtime protections and organizing rights for the first ...
Venice Family Clinic's Elizabeth Benson Forer explains how the dramatic growth of her essential facility reflects the breakdown of our health care system.
Critics accuse the medical provider of not matching the level of its treatment of mental illnesses with that of its care for physical health. Co-published by ...
Critics of the state's move to an age-based priority system say it defies statistical evidence that workplace transmission is a major source of the virus’s ...
She has heard no plan for a federal relief package that might somehow lessen her burden. And, hotel worker Liliana Hernandez says, the whole notion ...
Michelle Burton of the Community Health Councils discusses the systemic and pervasive racism that lies at the root of a deep distrust of the health ...
Mark Kreidler speaks with Erin McIntosh, a rapid-response nurse in Riverside, about the burnout plaguing health care workers in the final stretch of the pandemic. ...
Co-published by The Guardian Even before the pandemic, ICE consistently failed to provide adequate medical care to detainees on its flights -- with dire outcomes.
The Adelanto Detention Facility is again in the center of controversy, allegedly using protests taking place outside the facility as an excuse to mistreat detainees.
Advocates ask supervisors to act now as fatalities mount and public health dept. allows COVID patients into facilities with poor track records.</strong
Restaurant workers at a Los Angeles eatery were looking forward to the high season of tips and extra hours. Then came the pandemic. Co-published by ...
The coronavirus story involves governmental response times and political spin. But economic inequality issues also play a large part. Co-published by Fast Company
