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Listen: Housing is health care
Long Island is in the midst of a housing crisis. Just like in many other…
Category: Color Code
Listen: How Long Island became the ‘eugenics capital of the world’
The study of eugenics wasn’t born on Long Island — it’s closer to say it…
Listen: Why Covid-19 wasn’t the ‘great equalizer’
When the Covid-19 pandemic began in 2020, some experts assumed the virus would affect everyone…
Listen: Wildfire pollution widens asthma inequities on Long Island
Wyandanch is a proud, resilient community on Long Island. There’s about 13,000 people who live…
Listen: ‘Food apartheid’ starves minority neighborhoods on Long Island
James Boone wakes up at 6 a.m. nearly every Sunday, driving his van to Trader…
Listen: For Long Island mothers, community efforts address ‘an injustice made purposefully invisible’
In the third episode of “Color Code,” we take a look at efforts on Long…
‘A textbook case of environmental racism’: The battle over the Brookhaven Landfill
The area of North Bellport on Long Island sits in the shadows of a massive…
Listen: Welcome to Long Island: segregation and suburban health
For season 2 of “Color Code,” we’re zooming into the birthplace of American suburbs and…
Vertus Hardiman and the medical tragedies that must not be forgetten
Vertus Hardiman wore a wig for more than 70 years. His hair piece concealed a…
Listen: Diverse clinical trials: Why aren’t we there yet?
Clinical trials are critical to advancing lifesaving medications and treatments. But the U.S. is falling…
Listen: ‘Racism is America’s oldest algorithm’: How bias creeps into health care AI
Artificial intelligence and medical algorithms are deeply intertwined with our modern health care system. These…
A ‘city on fire’: How Miami shaped a disputed diagnosis used to justify deaths in police custody
One night in 2019, Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man in Colorado, was walking home…
Listen: ‘Birthing while Black’ is an American crisis. Communities demand justice
In August of 2021, Denise Williams was rushed to Queens Hospital Center in New York…
Listen: Dismantling medical racism starts in the classroom
Medical education is in the midst of a revolution. Students and educators, fueled by the…
Listen: How one 1910 report curtailed Black medical education for over a century
Medicine in America underwent a radical transformation in 1910. This was the year the Flexner…
Listen: Medicine lost the trust of many Black Americans. How can it be restored?
In fall 2020, I reported a story about two HBCU presidents in New Orleans who…