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Bishop T.D. Jakes Starts New Campaign For Discounted Prescription Drugs

Bishop T.D. Jakes Starts New Campaign For Discounted Prescription Drugs

Bishop T.D. Jakes has started a new campaign offering free prescription drug discounts that will purportedly give patients up to 75 percent off medications at thousands of pharmacies across…

Top 5 Diseases That Are Misdiagnosed In African Americans

Top 5 Diseases That Are Misdiagnosed In African Americans

Millions of Americans spend years suffering from unexplained health problems. Sometimes even the best doctors miss the mark: About 40 percent of all mistakes that doctors make are misdiagnoses,…

Maya Angelou Opens Women’s Health Center

Maya Angelou Opens Women’s Health Center

Among Maya Angelou’s many profound, and very wise, thoughts is: “I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be…

Black folks! Don’t use the Bible to condemn gay marriage

Black folks! Don’t use the Bible to condemn gay marriage

In this video, I talk about how it is wrong to use a book that was utilized to justify the enslavement of Africans and African Americans as a reason…

Black Youth Denied Chance To Walk Across Stage Because Of Autism

Black Youth Denied Chance To Walk Across Stage Because Of Autism

  Sinclaire Coffer, a 17-year-old high school student with autism, is fighting to be allowed to graduate from North Springs Charter High School in Sandy Springs, Ga.,after the state…

Curb HIV With Female Circumcision And Shaving Heads, Says Zimbabwe Politician Morgan Femai

Curb HIV With Female Circumcision And Shaving Heads, Says Zimbabwe Politician Morgan Femai

Morgan Femai, an MDC-T senator and Zimbabwean politician has sparked outrage by suggesting the spread of HIV can be curbed if women shave their heads, stop bathing and deliberately…

NY Times: “Black Women Want to be Fat”

NY Times: “Black Women Want to be Fat”

Alice Randall at the New York Times says that black women have a cultural identity in which they encourage one another to be overweight.   FOUR out of five…

Top 3 Diseases That Kill Black Women

Top 3 Diseases That Kill Black Women

The good news? The leading threats to women’s health, at least the majority of them, can be prevented. The not-so-great part? Many people don’t know how. So, first step:…

Teachers Give Negative Feedback To Students Of Color

Teachers Give Negative Feedback To Students Of Color

  Black and Latino students may be getting less critical, but helpful, feedback from teachers than their white counterparts, a new educational study indicates. “The social implications of these…

White Teens Pay For The Best Birth Control, While Black Teens Just Have Babies.

White Teens Pay For The Best Birth Control, While Black Teens Just Have Babies.

  More teen girls now use the best kinds of birth control, a new government study says. About 60 percent of teen girls who have sex use the most…

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