It’s fitting that Oprah is ending her show in May, the month that not only celebrates mothers, our very first teachers, but graduation as well. For me there have been two remarkable teachers that I have admired in my life, my mother being the first and Oprah.

Menthol cigarettes are risky. All cigarettes, of course, are dangerous. Smoking is the single-most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Each year an estimated 443,000…

Read the full issue brief here. This post was originally published at the Center for American Progress website. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is currently considering a ban on the…

As Black women, it’s often a struggle to find places where images of ourselves are reflected at us in the media. Advertisements in magazines or on television seldom illustrate our…