ESSENCE celebrates the changemakers shaping a bold, Black future today during Black History Month. With our second annual “Black Futures Now” list, we’re honoring a select group of leaders who are ...

LOS ANGELES (TNND) — A doctor in California is facing criminal charges and a civil lawsuit after a 2-day-old baby boy died following a circumcision procedure, according to a report. The Los Angeles ...

Orange County prosecutors have charged an OB-GYN with a felony count of involuntary manslaughter after an infant died following a circumcision he performed. Prosecutors allege that Dr. Hong-An Jan ...

PHUTHADITJHABA, South Africa (AP) — The 22-year-old Lamkelo Mtyho had no known health issues when he joined his peers, wrapped in blankets and smeared in clay, for the most important ritual of his ...

A two-week-old baby was hospitalized at Wolfson after contracting herpes during a circumcision involving direct oral suction. A two-week-old baby was hospitalized at Wolfson Medical Center with a ...

Relatives meet at Conroe Community Cemetery in Conroe, Texas, where many of the town’s earliest Black residents are buried, in February 2025. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) About ...

I once lived in a Black mecca. But by the summer of 2022, my toddler son and I were often the only Black folks on the playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a fact that felt both alienating and surreal. We ...

Pain in neonates after circumcision decreased significantly after the implementation of a comprehensive nurse practitioner (NP)-led management. “This NP-led EBPQI [evidence-based practice quality ...

British Jews are weighing in after authorities said they are considering deeming some circumcisions “a form of child abuse” following deaths from the procedure. The Crown Prosecution Service, the ...

Some pastors offer circumcision ceremonies as an alternative to older practices involving ancestor worship, misogyny, and dedicating children to demons. Twenty-five 12 and 13-year-old boys and their ...

We searched PubMed, Cochrane, CancerLit, Google Scholar, medRxiv, bioRxiv, UpToDate, TRIP database, and the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global databases to identify relevant articles. We ...

Black student unions have been a vital part of many Black college students’ lives for more than 60 years. But since 2024, Black student unions have lost their institutional support, campus space and ...