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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism M S Class of 2019 Hidden Trials The lack of diversity in clinical trials is a problem for America s health By Caroline Hopkins Advisor Jonathan Weiner Copyright Caroline Hopkins 2019…

Deep in the dark woods of Inwood Hill Park, a tall man with rosy cheeks stops walking to free his hands from a pair of winter gloves and power up a recording on his iPhone. Forty owl watchers behind him follow his lead and stop walking, too. They…

Michael McCabe opened his “History and Culture of Tattooing” lecture with a request for a show of hands. “Who has at least one tattoo somewhere on their body?” he asked. Fourteen hands — the hands of all but two of the attendees seated in the…

Nationwide, the National Institute of Drug Abuse reports over 115 overdose deaths each day — and with 2,822 drug-related hospitalizations per 100,000 adults, the NYC Department of Health profile ranks East Harlem second of 59 districts in the…

When the 500,000-square-foot East River Plaza opened its doors on Nov. 12, 2009, its developers promised to bring an economic boost to East Harlem, a neighborhood where unemployment hovered around 14 percent. Nine years later, residents argue the…

Volunteers celebrate World Habitat Day at the East River Compost Yard Caroline Hopkins Oct 6, 2018 Just south of the Manhattan entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge, several tons of New York City’s food waste emit billows of steam inside the East…

For East Harlem nonprofit, Langston Hughes’ legacy is more than his house Caroline Hopkins Oct 6, 2018 On a recent Friday evening in September, applause filled the parlor of the Langston Hughes House in East Harlem as the final poet of the…