NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We are at an unprecedented time in our nation’s history. Racism is an omnipresent public health burden,” said Dr. Michael LeNoir, one of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — COVID-19 has killed more than 230,000 people in the U.S., and the death toll continues to rise at a rate of about 1,000...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Chavis, a student and disciple of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and a member of the famous Wilmington 10 civil rights...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The most exciting news is that the National Institute of Health’s is making progress on genetic therapies for SCD that are potentially curative....
NNPA — In a CNN interview, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar attributed the high coronavirus death rate to unhealthy African Americans. Azar claimed that...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — During the early Civil Rights Movement when women worked behind the scenes, Dorothy Height’s quiet power brought wisdom and a social worker’s perspective...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The chaotic culture of the Trump White House contributed to the crisis. A lack of planning and a failure to execute, combined with...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Minority and low-income Americans suffer from a significant lack of access to quality health care. They are also more likely not to have...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It is well documented that African Americans get sick more frequently, are screened for illness less often, are diagnosed for disease later, are...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Dr. King’s belief in universal programs as the key to our nation’s shared prosperity has long been central to the African American tradition....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — While Black women get breast cancer at a lower rate than white women, we are 42 percent more likely to die from it....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Here we are, again, musing the question, “Where do we go from here?” And I continue to contend the critical question is, “Where...
Alan Zerembo, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (The L.A. Times) – On most health measures, blacks fare much worse than whites — differences that have...
David Kroll, FORBES (Forbes) – Black children were more than half as likely as white children to be given opioid pain medicine when arriving in U.S. emergency...
Liana Aghajanian, AL JAZEERA AMERICA CLAREMONT, Calif. (Al Jazeera America) — Ask Debbie Allen, a black midwife, what it’s like to give birth as a...
LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A racial gap in kidney transplants appears to have closed, a 13-year study found. Rates of such transplants...
by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Things are “moving in the right direction” in terms of the treatment of mental health...
Damon Tweedy, THE NEW YORK TIMES DURHAM, N.C. (The New York Times) — In virtually every field of medicine, black patients as a group fare the...
by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Exposure to racial discrimination may explain why members of some minority groups disproportionately suffer from...
LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Americans’ eating habits have improved — except among the poor, evidence of a widening wealth gap when it...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite the stubborn persistence of racial disparities in health, there is cause for Black women to celebrate. “Overall,...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist My friend is awaiting health insurance. This is not academic. She’s afraid that she might have cancer. Think about...
[Raw Story] A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine this week found that aging was accelerated at the cellular level in African-American men who reported...
[Science 2.0] Low-income, Hispanic and African-American Californians need to have a tax on sodas and other sugary beverages if they are going to have reduced risk...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – “My office says my name, Rachel, on the door. I am the only one who sits in...
