Howard University student Dara Freeman was in pain, crazy pain, the kind that most people will never experience. Freeman, 20, had been hit with a migraine headache.
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Stevens and six other Howard students spent Monday rebuilding La Hermosa Church in downtown Arecibo, a town of 96,000 on the island’s northern coast.
The new study issued found “no progress” for African Americans on homeownership, unemployment and incarceration in 50 years.
Reproductive healthcare is not a luxury, and for Black women specifically, being in full control of our reproductive decisions can quite literally be a matter of life and death.
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) will honor Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) with the 2018 Newsmaker of the Year Award during the NNPA’s 2018 Black Press Week
The Nantucket Police Department is investigating the vandalism, which occurred sometime Saturday night or Sunday morning, Nantucket’s The Inquirer and Mirror reported.
Facebook brought some amazing women together in honor of International Women’s Day
The president of America’s largest organization of Black legislators has called for unity behind economic development initiatives prioritized by Black Wealth 2020; a movement launched two years ago to forge progress for Black-owned businesses, banks and homeowners.
About 700 to 900 women die each year from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. And for every death, dozens of women suffer life-threatening complications. But there is a stark racial disparity in these numbers. Black mothers are three to four times more likely to die than white mothers. Nevertheless, Black women’s voices are often missing from public discussions about what’s behind the maternal health crisis and how to address the problems.
Black AIDS Institute is launching a Black Women and PrEP Tool Kit, offering direct services for Black women in our prevention clinic in Los Angeles, and announcing that we will conduct a series of summits nationwide to increase capacity for advocacy and education around PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) access for Black women.