For a few years of my childhood, I had a stepsister. She didn’t die or anything—she just stopped visiting her father, who eventually divorced my mom. She was about my age, and we must have been 9 or ...

A case report published in Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases describes the medical complications of a 36-year-old woman with kidney failure whose escalating compulsion to consume clay led to ...

“The ancestral African tradition to which I belong tells me that clay is a portal. It is not inert. It breathes and it remembers,” writes Dr. Jareh Das, curator of “Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, ...