ST. PETERSBURG, FLA -- Sharmae Lamar has been a teacher in Pinellas County for seven years. She says she started her career as a substitute and worked her way up. Her mom inspired her to pursue a ...

A new GOP-led bill would give parents more power to fight schools when they are denied access to classroom materials related ...

The state of charitable giving in America is strong and growing on Giving Tuesday this year. “States with larger economies dominate in total charitable giving, while per-capita leaders are shaped by ...

Kobi Ajayi founded and remains affiliated with EDEN Foundation, Nigeria, a local non-profit organization with a mission to improve preterm infant outcomes. Seven years ago, at 30 weeks into a ...

An American mother revealed in a TikTok video that it cost her more than $30,000 in hospital bills to give birth, sparking concerned comments from around the world about the costs of American health ...

A small but growing number of pregnant women are choosing to give birth without any assistance from a midwife or doctor, trusting instead in influencers’ tales of the “euphoria” of a “free birth”. A ...

A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labor, after a video circulated of a Black woman writhing in pain at an Indiana ...

Mercedes Wells’ story has become all too common when discussing Black maternal care. After a video of her being discharged from Franciscan Health Crown Point Hospital while in active labor went viral, ...

Alena Wells could have entered the world surrounded by her family and medical professionals. Instead, she was born on Nov. 16 in the front seat of a Chevrolet Silverado as her father, Leon Wells, ...

Mercedes Wells' experience at Franciscan Health Crown Point highlights disparities in Black women's birth experiences. Franciscan Health Crown Point in Crown Point, Indiana, has dismissed a doctor and ...

The University of Arizona James E. Roger College of Law offers undergraduate students real-life experiences through a variety of hands-on law clinics so students can apply theory into practice, make ...

CROWN POINT, Ind. (WLS) -- The doctor and nurse who attended to a Chicago mother who was discharged from a northwest Indiana hospital shortly before giving birth earlier this week are no longer with ...