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  • Behind the Herpes Numbers
    by Sheree Crute on 
    April 19, 2010

    The CDC report last month that nearly half of black women carried the virus caused a huge uproar. Here's why those statistics are so high and why they also may be misleading.

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  • The Confab -- Mar. 12, 2010
    March 12, 2010

    This week on The Confab: Marriage equality comes to D.C., but is the fight over for same-sex couples? Plus, a look at women, power and black pathology: Why are black women getting such a bad rap? Join The Root's managing editor Joel Dreyfuss as he talks with Washington reporter Dayo Olopade and regular contributor to The Root Adam Serwer.

     

    * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus.

    * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

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  • Nearly Half of Black Women Have Herpes
    March 9, 2010

    Find out why the government thinks this group has been hit so hard by the disease.

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