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Nature - Simon Baron-Cohen absorbs the grave revelations in a study on a paediatrician enmeshed in autism’s history.

We took a peek inside a shuttered Bronx facility where NYPD cops are supposed to take emotionally distressed New Yorkers to get help. Another center in East Harlem has served just 45 people — coming out to $1.1 million per visit.

Harvard Chan’s David Williams, whose research looks at how discrimination affects Black people’s health, talks about his pioneering work to assess the toll that police killings are having on Black mental health.

A Black woman sought three appraisals for her home when she couldn't figure out why the values were so low compared to nearby sales.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Thousands of retired Black professional football players, their families and supporters are demanding an end to the controversial use of “race-norming” to determine which players are eligible for payouts in the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims, a system experts say is discriminatory.

Sickle cell trait has been cited in dozens of police custody deaths ruled accidental or natural, even though the condition is benign on its own, a Times investigation found.

I have some bad news that, I hope, will turn out to be good news.  Psychological studies are not about you.  They make few if any predictions about how you should live your life, how to tell if you’re an introvert, or anything else about you as an individual.

Designers should show how well instruments perform across different populations

A recent study shows that people with power embrace a "choice mindset" — and apply it to those with fewer resources

The company trained the system to recognize different skin conditions. But like Google itself, the app's data has a diversity problem.

The massively popular photo-editing app Facetune is driving a generation of young women to extreme and obsessive lengths to look flawless online.

Leslie Nguyen-Okwu explores what it means to balance on a hyphen, as an Asian and Black woman in America.

"He eats bread and drinks beer but it does not go well for him, then says, ‘Oh, my heart!’ and is dejected."

In a new interview with Oprah Winfrey for her Apple TV+ show 'The Oprah Conversation,' Elliot Page says he collapsed while promoting 'Inception' amid gender pressures.

Amanda Bynes struggled with gender dysphoria while filming 'She's the Man.' Learn more about her mental health struggles after the movie.

As the pandemic and lockdowns dragged on and on over the past year, most of us longed only for the day when the world would return to what it was before Covid-19 entered our vocabulary. For others, though, the months of seclusion led them to search for ways they might be able to make the world just a little better place than it was before. Here are a few ideas on improving your little part of the post-pandemic Earth that you could latch onto, or maybe you have some ideas of your own.

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Coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, Critical Race Theory is the practice of interrogating race and racism in society that emerged in the legal academy and spread to other fields of scholarship.

These charts cast a fresh light on perceptions that protests against racism and police brutality have been violent.

A cartogram makes it easy to compare regional and national GDPs at a glance.

The inspirational rail worker won the Samaritans Lifesaver Award for his efforts to prevent sui

A Carson native is encouraging men to join him

In a viral thread, a Twitter user explains why it might not always be a good idea to report suicidal behavior on Twitter.

At 15, he shot and killed his parents, two classmates at his school, and wounded 25 others. He’s been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since.

Why do we leave millions of people in poverty? The answer should make us uncomfortable.

Even in cities known for providing transgender services, trans people report myriad barriers in getting mental health services, experts say.

COVID-19 helped reveal how racism, financial strain, and weight stigma can powerfully affect mental health.

LEXINGTON, MA—Impatiently scanning store shelves while tersely repeating requests for an inventory of clothing and other items that would be taken along, local mother Susan Vernon, 51, channeled her escalating fears regarding her daughter leaving for college later this month into a fight about storage bins, sources…

It can't supply absolute truths about the world, but it brings us steadily closer