While Black Maternal Health Week has passed, the conversation and the work behind the movement goes on. Tiara Johnson has made it her life’s mission to help other Black mothers receive quality ...

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s stunning debut novel, Big Girl, is the story of a Black girl’s coming-of-age.While growing up in gentrifying Harlem during the 1980s and ’90s, Malaya Clondon is ...

Osceola "Ozzie" Fletcher, a Black World War II veteran who was wounded in the Battle of Normandy in 1944, was finally awarded a Purple Heart last week after being denied the honor for decades.

Tiara Johnson developed PPCM in her late 20’s during the last month of her second pregnancy. Before she could be listed for a heart transplant, the doctor told her she would have to lose 100 pounds.

The titular story, Heart Lamp, is about Mehrun, who returns to her parental home after a crisis, predictably to be rejected and sent back. “As evening started to lose its light, lamps were lit ...

At Mr. Lee’s “beautiful” fruit store, he offers her an apple. Old Mr. Sims invites her to touch a smooth stone he always carries. Beautiful means “something that when you have it, your heart is happy, ...

For Black women, spotting heart failure signs early is particularly important: Nearly half of all African American women in the US have some form of cardiovascular disease, and they have the ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Feb. 7, 2022. Click here for that audio. A simple cotton sack is the subject of a book that's a finalist for the National Book Award. The “moving ...

Indian writer Banu Mushtaq is the first Kannada language author to win the International Booker Prize, and her book " Heart Lamp " is also the first short story collection to do so. "Heart Lamp" ...