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

Cada noche, durante meses, mientras se acostaban en su casa de Watts, al sur de Los Ángeles, José, de siete años —que lleva ...

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, ...

J Vasquez pasó 25 años preso desde los 16 por violencia pandillera ligada a trauma infantil. Hoy, a los 49, sanó y trabaja ...

Doctors in membership-based arrangements generally cap their practices at a few hundred patients, a fraction of the 2,000 to 2,500 patients a physician typically handles in a large health system. They ...

It’s back to school this fall for the Presidential Fitness Test, a Trump administration initiative to measure children’s strength, endurance, speed and agility. But here’s the important question: What ...

The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 12 to 19 million households struggle to afford water. But there are no federal or state programs to help low-income people pay their bills. “To state ...

The USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism is pleased to announce the selection of 18 talented journalists to participate in the 2026 National Fellowship, which will explore the well-being of ...

Renatto Guerrero has lived with HIV for 15 years. “It was three days before I turned 33, and I didn’t know much about it. The first things that came to mind were fatalistic thoughts: what’s going to ...

Desirae Barragan hugs her program co-directors on stage at the Blue Lake Rancheria Casino, smiling into a sea of faces and a swell of cheers. Across her shoulders – and those of her fellow graduates ...

In October of 2024, at a local Investigative Reporters & Editors meetup in Chicago, Hannah Harris Green and I got into a conversation about an unusual trend happening in America: Drug overdose deaths ...