For decades, Black women have been told that the negative health outcomes we face are our own fault. We’re fed rhetoric that we are diabetic because we won’t stop eating foods passed down as heirlooms ...

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 ...

Arline Geronimus, ScD, is a professor of health behavior and health education at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. She coined the term ‘weathering’ to describe how Black people ...

The 2024-25 Campus Community Book Project Title is “Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society” by Arline Geronimus. (Megan Macklin/UC Davis) Updated June 14: The book ...

We've been provided with an exclusive essay by Makoto Shikai about what it means for filmmakers to make movies about climate change and the younger generation and why he made Weathering With You. His ...