Investigations & Dispatches

MB EXCLUSIVE: THEY CALLED IT ESSENTIAL. WE CALL IT WHAT IT IS.

How Congress turned 61,000 airport workers into unpaid hostages, and what happens when America finally says enough.

MB EXCLUSIVE ·: The Formula They Retired But Never Deleted. FROM INSIDE THE SYSTEM

A 2021 task force killed the race-based kidney formula that made Black patients’ organs look healthier than they were. Four years later, MB went looking for where it’s still quietly running.

We're Not Done Talking About July

Weekend recap, MB Frame, and why awareness months don't end when the graphics stop.

BLUEPRINT 101 · HIPAA Why Almost Everyone Gets HIPAA Wrong

The rule everyone quotes and almost nobody has actually read.

Still Surviving: A Love Letter to Black Men

For Black Men's Mental Health Awareness Month

The Coverage Denial Playbook

How algorithmic prior authorization quietly denies care to Black patients - and how to fight the denial.

MB EXCLUSIVE · THE 250TH ISSUE · THE FOUNDERS & Healers They Erased

America built its medicine on Black knowledge, Black brilliance, and Black bodies then took the cure and buried the names. On the country's 250th birthday, we say them.

Free, But Never Well

We celebrate the date but rarely tell the truth under it: emancipation freed the body and abandoned its care. The first health system for freed Black people was starved, then shut down.

For Deneco.

Today, at the close of Black Men's Mental Health Month, melaninblissmedia.com goes live. A special launch edition of The Melanin Memo.

The Cure We Can't Reach

A drug can finally slow Alzheimer's — but only if you're caught early. Black Americans face double the risk and later diagnoses. The cure was built around a door we're too often locked out of.

When the Hospital Is the Trigger

PTSD Awareness Month points at war and disaster. We’re naming the trigger no one does: the clinic that didn’t believe our pain. The exhaustion you carry isn’t weakness — it’s documented.

The Privilege We Almost Forgot to Feel

Four former presidents shared one stage on Chicago’s South Side. The gratitude that followed wasn’t partisan — it was civic, and overdue.