Common knowledge holds that African Americans are reluctant to take part in clinical trials for the pharmaceutical industry, and some say for good reason ...

More than two decades later, broccoli is making news for the right reason: it’s a nutritional powerhouse. ...

Fortunately, in most cases, hypertension can be prevented and controlled with simple dietary changes and increased physical activity. Dr. David Martins, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Medicine at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science recommends the following lifestyle changes to enhance normal blood pressure readings: ...

The Phase IIb study, conducted by the NIAID-funded HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), was designed to determine whether the vaccine regimen could prevent HIV infection and/or reduce the amount of virus in the blood of vaccine recipients who became infected with HIV. ...

Some experts believe that Mississippi’s conservative politics, underfunding of HIV/AIDS programs and growing socioeconomic disparities both fuel the epidemic and increase the likelihood that more HIV-positive men and women will drop out of care—if they receive it at all. ...

Sheriff Israel became the first Sheriff in the 98 years of the Bro-ward Sheriff’s Office to choose a Black man to hold the office of Chaplain for the Sheriff’s Office and Pastor Knowles was the Black man chosen. ...

And even folks with blinders and rosy- colored glasses on can see that Crist is aiming for the 2014 Democratic Gubernatorial nomination. ...

Florida faces many huge problems, and it appeared that Governor Scott decided to stand on the outside, and not take a position. ...

Still, I proudly raise my flag and declare: I Am a Citizen of Hip Hop. ...

other famous “hilarious Black neighbor” Internet sensation, the coverage of Ramsey – and his criminal past – raises serious questions about how we treat a hero with a troubled past and, yes, how Blacks and whites look at the same event through different prisms of race. ...