What is weathering? It describes how Black people experience early health deterioration due to stress caused by systemic racism. Learn more and how to heal. Arline Geronimus, ScD, is a professor of ...

Racism kills; and that is made abundantly clear with every Black life lost to police misconduct, environmental hazard, or stress-induced illness. But the slow crumbling of our health due to systemic ...

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 ...

This year, 2020, is the gift that keeps on giving in the worst way possible, and the Black community is bearing the brunt of the bad news. Not only are we experiencing a disproportionate amount of ...

How do we talk about miscarriages? The word sometimes feels taboo. It is tied so closely with raw feelings of devastation, confusion, heartbreak and rage — all easier to avoid than confront. Karamu ...

Choreographer Faye Driscoll doesn’t do lovely movement to lyrical music. She is instead a provocateur, a seeker, constantly asking tough questions — of herself as well as of us. Her recent “Weathering ...