Doctors in membership-based arrangements generally cap their practices at a few hundred patients, a fraction of the 2,000 to ...

Communities of color and low-income communities have long faced disproportionate exposure to highways, power plants and other sources of industrial pollution.

J Vasquez spent 25 years incarcerated for gang violence rooted in childhood trauma. Now 49, he's healed, works as CURYJ's ...

A Watts family endures 6 months of separation after ICE detains devoted father of four, José Padilla, straining finances, ...

The Chinese community, like many others, has a growing elderly population while facing a critical shortage of caregivers. As the largest Asian ethnic group aged 65 years and older, Chinese Americans ...

"At times, I thought about giving up everything, even abandoning the child I gave birth to with all my pain, to return to Vietnam. I even had suicidal thoughts…" That is the confession of Thien Nguyen ...

Over the summer, the Los Angeles Times spoke with the Thai community in Los Angeles about mental health challenges and access to care. Reporters observed a self-defense class for massage students at ...

This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Maria Alesia Sosa and Érika Carrillo, participants in the 2018 National Fellowship. Three days earlier, Adianet Galván González, 30, had ...

Fancying myself to be a Black movie and TV connoisseur, I often incorporate a line – or two – from a classic or a hidden gem into my speech when appropriate. One of my favorites comes from the 2002 ...

As a trailblazing “Star Trek” crew member, actress Nichelle Nichols boldly went where no other Black woman had gone before. But in the end, she was subject to the same Earthly realities as any other ...

Her patient was moments from death, suffering from a severe brain infection, yet adamant that he’d rather leave the emergency room than be treated by a Black doctor. By her. Dr. Kara Toles recognized ...

In a tense ER in Nashville, Tennessee, an incarcerated patient refused Dr. Italo Brown’s care, calling him a “monkey doctor.” Without missing a beat, Brown replied, “Well, that’s fantastic, because I ...