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Jamel Hill and his family are praying as the wait for Match Day announcement. Fourth year medical students are getting ready to graduate and start their residencies in July. It’s been a long journey—and especially challenging for many Black students. In a fully decorated community hall in Indianapolis, Jamel Hill and about a dozen relatives are gathering. On the side there is a laptop with a group Zoom video call that has the rest of the extended family—great grandparents and all. Hill is setting up two laptops. “My family is huge. And so I am setting up one zoom for my family to see...

Listen • 3:59 Lloyd Lucky Hall (right) died of Covid-19 in March 2020 at age 69. He leaves behind a family of children and grandchildren. Sirrea Whittaker describes her dad as the life of the party, an outspoken Black man with a love for his Omega Psi Phi fraternity and a sprawling network of friends. “And it sometimes was annoying, because like, you can go to the grocery store and you leave two hours later because he finds someone he knew,” says the 36-year-old working mother from Indianapolis. His 5-year-old granddaughter describes him a little differently: "He was...

Many U.S. doctors have received their COVID-19 vaccines, but nearly a third are foreign-born with family in countries facing no access to it — a disparity that troubles many as they fight the virus.

Listen • 4:21 The Butterball poultry processing plant in Carthage, Missouri is one of several major plants that employ many Latinx immigrants. Through grainy video on a recent Facebook live event, Missouri health director Dr. Randall Williams explained who was currently eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine. A moment later, an interpreter from the Mexican consulate in Kansas City provided a translation. The live stream was the consulate’s idea. Consul Alfonso Navarro Bernachi has been working with the Missouri health department since the start of the pandemic. “We’ve ...

New Program Helps People With Diabetes Eat Healthy Article origination WFYI-FM FARAH YOUSRY - Side Effects Public Media Standing in her kitchen, Therese Richardson is making her favorite recipe. “The honey dijon roasted pork tenderloin. I like that one,” the 50-year-old Indianapolis woman says. Richardson has Type 2 diabetes, meaning that cells in her body are resistant to insulin, causing her blood sugar levels to rise. Eating vegetables and other healthy food helps her avoid serious complications — and lowers blood sugar levels. “I didn't like broccoli, but I had to have the cheese ...