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Campaigning for a Commercial-Free Childhood
Campaigning for a Commercial-Free ChildhoodHoward University conference addresses the dangers of marketing to childrenBy Ronald RoachWASHINGTONAnational coalition dedicated to protecting children from the marketing efforts of companies held its fourth national conference in Washington. Convening on the Howard University campus, the two-day Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) conference had highlights that included a speech […]
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Events
APRIL April 10-12NACADA Mid-South Regional Conference “Excellence in Advising: Guiding Students to the Winner’s Circle”The Chamberly Brown HotelLouisville, Ky.Web: www.nacada.ksu.edu/Regional_Divisions/region3/confindex.htmApril 16Herman C. Hudson Graduate Student Symposium“Challenging Racism, (Hetero) Sexism, Classism and Homophobia in the African Diaspora”Indiana University, BloomingtonEmail: aaads@indiana.eduApril 20-23Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission28th Annual Conference on Black History in PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaWeb: www.phmc.state.pa.us April 21-22NACADA North Central […]
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Saving A Generation
Saving A GenerationNorth Carolina public health department partners with state’s Black colleges to raise awareness about HIV/AIDSBy Crystal L. Keels North Carolina A&T does it. Across the street, Bennett College does it too. So do Elizabeth City State University, Livingstone and Fayetteville State. These North Carolina-based historically Black institutions have made HIV/AIDS education a part […]
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Survival at Stake
Survival at StakeUniversity of North Carolina’s Dr. Adaora Adimora searches for answers into HIV transmission among African AmericansBy Eleanor Lee YatesChapel Hill, N.C.During the 1980s and into the ’90s, HIV and AIDS primarily affected gay White men. The rates of HIV/AIDS stabilized in the 1990s in the United States, but today the numbers are soaring […]
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On the Frontline of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
On the Frontline of the HIV/AIDS EpidemicWith infection rates still escalating among African Americans, researchers, scholars and activists wonder if the battle is a losing oneBy B. Denise HawkinsMost days, Cynthia Davis is an exasperated trooper who can always be found teaching and preaching from the frontline of the AIDS epidemic in Los Angeles. The […]
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Researchers, Students, Gather in Hawaii For Violence Prevention Conference
Researchers, Students, Gather in Hawaii For Violence Prevention Conference More than 800 researchers, scholars, violence prevention professionals, community activists and students are expected to gather in Honolulu April 6-9 for “Navigating Pathways to Violence Prevention,” the sixth National Conference on Family Community Violence Prevention.Sponsored by the Family and Community Violence Prevention program, a joint initiative […]
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Congressional Alliance to Tackle Minority Health Disparities
Congressional Alliance to Tackle Minority Health Disparities WASHINGTONIn collaboration with Newt Gingrich, the former U.S. Speaker of the House and founder of the Center for Health Transformation, and Peter Deutsch, former U.S. Representative from Florida, the National Minority Health Month Foundation (NMHMF) announced the formation of the Congressional Leadership Alliance to       Eliminate Health Disparities. “This […]
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Hampton University Center
Hampton University Center to Focus On Breast and Prostate Cancer ResearchHAMPTON, Va.  Hampton University is planning the construction of a 64,000-square-foot Biomedical Research Center on the university campus. Funded by HU and a federal government agency, the state-of-the-art facility will be an interdisciplinary center for biomedical researchers from both HU and the local region.HU’s Biomedical […]
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New Joint Center Partnership Focuses
New Joint Center Partnership Focuses On Diversifying Health Care Work Force      WASHINGTONThe Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has partnered with former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, to increase racial and ethnic diversity within the nation’s health care work force. This alliance will spearhead the […]
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Launches Patient Internet Portal
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Launches Patient Internet Portal PITTSBURGHThe University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has launched an Internet-based program for diabetes patients that allows them to communicate more effectively with their doctors from any location and to better manage their health care by using an Internet portal. The Web-based initiative, known as UPMC […]
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Milk Matters
Milk MattersAfrican Americans are not getting enough calcium, one of two emerging health issues to be concerned about, researcher saysDiets high in fat and calories and low in calcium, may not only be putting African- American children at risk for obesity, but can make them prone to a common bone disease associated with adults at […]
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Taking an Interdisciplinary Approach
Taking an Interdisciplinary Approach Ten African-American scholars combine expertise to get at the root of obesityFor decades in the obesity research community, the name Dr. Shiriki K. Kumanyika has been virtually synonymous with culturally specific weight-control and dietary change research. But when she decided to take a more activist role in designing research to reduce […]
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