The Jobs Report Says Stable. Black Households Feel Something Else.
The number can say stable while the household says strained. Tonight, the other story — the one your budget already knew.
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Amber McClendon
It's Health Center Week. In January, the Cutting Starts.
The country is celebrating the clinics that keep 32 million people in care. The same law everyone applauded is about to pull the funding out from under them.
The Gap Didn't Close. The Rules Are Quieter.
Maternal mortality stalled. AI bias oversight rolled back quietly. This week: Open Note, a new Deep Dive, and Friday's investigation
The Black Angels of Sea View
MID-WEEK DEEP DIVE: ERASED BLUEPRINT:
The Money You Can’t See
Why Healthcare AI Vendor Relationships Hide From Open Payments and What That Means for Black Patients
Pouring Into Us: "Grey May Ended. Sheinelle Is Still a Widow." WHO Rihanna Saw at the Met Gala 2026…
One Black woman poured into another on the Met Gala carpet — nineteen days before the one-year mark of a loss most of the country never saw.
WHO OWNS WESTCHESTER? THE $2.6 BILLION RESTRUCTURING RESHAPING EVERY HOSPITAL IN YOUR COUNTY
As New York State pours billions into consolidating its safety-net hospitals, Melanin Bliss Media investigates what the merger frenzy means for
The Ivory Tower's Blind Spot: What W.E.B. Du Bois Knew a Century Before Emory Admitted It
In 1899, a Black sociologist walked the Seventh Ward of Philadelphia, house by house, and proved something American medicine would spend the
MB THINK PIECE | The Pain They Don’t Believe
Black women report pain constantly, consistently, and clearly — and are undertreated for it constantly, consistently, and clearly. MB looks at why.
MB Investigation · SOUNDING THE ALARM | AQI Doesn’t Stay Put. Neither Do You
Your home address isn’t your exposure. New mobility-tracking research shows the air you actually breathe follows you through the day and the disparity is wider by race than by income.
MB EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION: The Cooling Economy Nobody's Counting.
When the air turns unsafe and the apartment has no AC, some New Yorkers aren't waiting on the city. They're selling the fix and doing public health's job for free in the process.
988 Promised One Door for Everyone. It Didn't Open the Same Way.
988 crisis line racial disparities