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
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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
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.