Though African Americans make up only about 32 percent of the state’s population, around 71 percent of the roughly 2,500 Georgians who were newly diagnosed with HIV in 2019 we...

As some Superfund sites around Brunswick, Georgia, are clearned up, a team of Emory scientists have found evidence of contaminants in some residents' blood.

J. Marion Sims is known as the “father of gynecology.” Lesser known is that he experimented on enslaved Black women in Montgomery, Alabama without their consent or anesthesia.

Georgia has a long and troubling history of pollution. And like many other parts of the U.S.

The gap between Black Georgians who have taken the COVID-19 shot and the rest of the state has narrowed, but the coronavirus continues to have a disproportionate effect on the...

Dr. Charles Drew invented a way to process and preserve blood plasma for transfusions, which allowed it to be stored, shipped and used for longer periods of time.

People with sickle cell disease call themselves warriors, as they fight their own bodies, hospital workers who doubt their pain and a public that doesn’t understand sickle cel

Many Black communities around Atlanta have voiced concerns about pollution for years but have lacked data to support their claims.

Telling her story to children is one cancer survivor’s ongoing battle to communicate the illness

It is easy to forget how restrictive Jim Crow laws were and how they forced Black people to navigate the American system.