As sickle cell research continues to improve, dedicated funding is much needed
Usher has been in the news recently and we know it’s not for his latest hit single. Court documents exposed that the R&B singer paid a woman $1.1 million for giving her herpes. Now another woman, named “Jane Doe” in the documents, is seeking $20 million for “emotional distress, negligence, and battery” after finding out […]
Carter G. Woodson once expressed that Black History Month is also a time to investigate the social, economic and cultural problems of the Negro.
(New American Media) — Seventy-nine percent of African Americans had health coverage in 2009 compared to 88 percent of white Americans. A total of 16.6 percent of African Americans aged 18 years and over do not have a regular source of health care. Nearly half (46 percent) of nonelderly black adults who do not have insurance […]
(LA Times) — Thirteen-year-old Jeremy Thicklin is on a mission to teach his friends how to prevent African-American babies from dying. The slender eighth-grader at Roosevelt Middle School was one of 212 volunteers who graduated Saturday from Community Voice, a five-week program teaching them how diet, exercise and behavior can reduce the high death rate […]
Sleep habits may be an underlying cause in Black health problems
New Study rethinks the link between race and breast cancer