Forty years ago, the public was outraged. It seemed there was a wave of teenage girls, particularly Black teenage girls, getting pregnant. "This was a new idea, this new deviant class of people, and ...

When Dr. Arline Geronimus first introduced the theory in 1990, her ideas were derided and largely ignored. Now, people are starting to listen. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta For Arline Geronimus, avoiding ...

This story is part of SELF's ongoing series exploring black maternal mortality. You can find the rest of the series here. Imagine for a moment that you’re a very silly 22-year-old driving through ...

For many hundreds of millions of years, the average temperature at the surface of the Earth has varied by not much more than 20 degrees Celsius, facilitating life on our planet. To maintain such ...