Poussaint's work had a tremendous impact on medicine and civil rights. Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, a psychiatrist and author who helped to expand on the understanding that racism is a pathology that ...

Growing up in New York City’s East Harlem neighborhood in the 1940s, Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint endured a pair of medical crises that placed him on a path toward medicine — and his role as a national ...

Alvin F. Poussaint, a psychiatrist and author who helped expand perceptions of the Black experience in America with research into the effects of racism on mental health and as script adviser for the ...

The 1980s were a singular time for race relations in America. As Black representation within political and business spaces increased, policies like the country’s “War on Drugs” disproportionately ...

Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s passing hit me harder than I could have anticipated it would. I had to dig through my own feelings to figure out why. When “The Cosby Show” — and Warner’s character, Theo ...

Since creating and starring as Dr. Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show, the once-beloved and ubiquitous comedian and actor Bill Cosby has seen his public image and career impacted by numerous allegations ...