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A Year In, Here's What We Know About Vitamin D For Preventing COVID

For a year, researchers have been studying and arguing over vitamin D's potential for helping protect against or treat COVID-19. The evidence is still not conclusive.

If confirmed by the Senate, Robert Santos, a Latinx statistician shown here in a handout photo from 2019, would be the Census Bureau's first permanent director of color.

Biden To Make Historic Census Director Pick With Latinx Statistician Rob Santos

If confirmed by the Senate, Robert Santos, president of the American Statistical Association, would be the bureau's first permanent director of color overseeing the national count and major surveys.

People exit an AMC theater Saturday, March 14, 2020, in Los Angeles. Californians wanting to escape the new reality of the coronavirus at the movies, casino or amusement park are running into the six-foot rule.

Female Protagonists Declined Significantly In 2020 Films, SDSU Professor Finds

The percentage of top-grossing films featuring female protagonists dropped from 40% in 2019 to 29% in 2020, according to the latest "It's a Man's (Celluloid) World" report released Tuesday by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University.

Thousands of people rallied against the military takeover in Yangon, Myanmar's most populous city, on Sunday. They demanded the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, whose elected government was toppled by the army that also imposed an Internet blackout.

Burmese Refugees In City Heights To Protest Myanmar Military Coup

On Saturday, Burmese refugees and their allies will take to the streets of City Heights, protesting a brutal military crackdown on civilians in their homeland.

Why So Many Asian Americans Are Learning Remotely

Multigenerational households and anti-Asian bullying may play a role.

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, seen last week at FEMA mass vaccination site in Boston, said Thursday that the CDC is taking steps to address the impact of racism on public health.

CDC Director Declares Racism A 'Serious Public Health Threat'

"The pandemic illuminated inequities that have existed for generations and revealed for all of America a known, but often unaddressed, epidemic impacting public health: racism," Walensky said.

Top: Owner and instructor Edmon Muradyan, 46, instructs Jae Chung, 49, and Anthony Refuerzo, 61, during a firearms training course organized by Asian Americans for Asian Americans at the Marshall Security Training Academy & Range in Compton, Calif. Bottom left: Bullet casings in the shooting range. Bottom right: A participant shows her paper target after her first time at a shooting range.

As Asian Americans Seek Safety From A Rise In Attacks, Some Look To Guns

At a recent firearms training session in southern California, a small group of Asian Americans had mixed reactions to acquiring a gun.

A testing kit sits on the windshield of a car as it passes through a drive-through COVID-19 testing site set up in St. Charles, Mo.

Race, Ethnicity Data To Be Required With Coronavirus Tests In U.S.

The federal government says that as of Aug. 1, all laboratories must include detailed demographic data when reporting test results in order to help fight the pandemic nationally.

Lakisa Muhammad with her husband, Dewayne, and children Yasina, 17, Hassana, 13, and Amir, 17, in their garden at home in Maricopa, Ariz.

In Arizona, Birth Workers Of Color Fight For More Access

As the state weighs legislation that could help expand access to doulas for expecting mothers, birth workers from minority communities worry new standards could leave them on the outside looking in.

U.N. Officials Warn Of Civil War In Myanmar

U.N. officials warn of civil war in Myanmar as militias run by the country's numerous ethnic minorities weigh an offer to create a federal state with the deposed government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

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