Previous studies have established a steep decline in the life expectancy of white women without a high school diploma. New research indicates that along with smoking, being unemployed is "strongly associated with higher death rates."

I'd like to take this moment to thank Men's Rights Activists for filling my cold black heart with delirious glee every time they come up with a new dumb idea. The newest one? White dudes, tired of the uppity bitchiness of western women, should marry a smiling, submissive brown lady, like the kind that wear banana…

Modern hetero relationships appear to be in a period of flux. This is potentially interesting — so why does the conversation about it feel so circular?

Good and bad breast cancer news. The bad: a recent survey of black and white women who have had surgery to remove early-stage breast cancer found that black women were less likely than white women to receive the crucial follow-up radiation treatment. The survey joins a long line of studies that show that U.S. blacks…

The notoriously aggressive British tabloid press has been obsessed with the disappearance of 4-year-old Madeline McCann since she vanished from her family's hotel room at a Portuguese resort this past May. The majority of the the scrutiny, as Broadsheet pointed out this morning, has fallen on Maddy's mother, Dr. Kate…