October 18, 2017 Michigan to charge state’s top medical official in Flint water deaths | Reuters (Reuters) - Michigan’s top medical official will be charged with involuntary manslaughter for her role in the city of Flint’s water crisis, which was linked to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that caused at least 12 deaths, state prosecutors said on Monday. African American Health, African Health Care, Flint, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
September 28, 2017 Black Entrepreneurs to Open Store for Breast Cancer Survivors | The Washington Informer Breast cancer survivors across the region will no longer have to travel far to feel beautiful. #BuyBlack, African American Entrepreneurs, African American Health, Black Businesses, Black Owned Business, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
September 8, 2017September 8, 2017 Remembering Afro-German Intellectual May Ayim | Black Perspectives It has been almost twenty-one years since Black German activist, educator, writer, and public intellectual May Ayim died on August 9, 1996 at the age of 36. African American Health, African American History, African Literature, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
September 7, 2017September 7, 2017 This Civil Rights Activist Is the Reason I’ve Been Vegan for 30 Years | Bon Appetit Dick Gregory, who passed away in August, spent his career advocating for the state—and the plate—of Black America African American Health, African American History, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 31, 2017August 31, 2017 Brittany Lewis crowned 2017 Miss Black America | The Philadelphia Tribune Venice Island Theatre hosted to the 49th Miss Black America Pageant on Saturday, August 26, 2017. The 2016 winner Nicole Lyn Hibbert crowned the new queen Brittany Lewis. African American Entrepreneurs, African American Families, African American Fashion, African American Health, African American Lives, Beauty, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 29, 2017August 29, 2017 Why it’s harder for African American women to report campus sexual assaults, even at mostly black schools | Los Angeles Times Chardonnay Madkins knows firsthand the pressures African American women can face when reporting campus sexual assaults. African American Health, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine, Violence Against Women
August 22, 2017August 22, 2017 Racial Segregation and How It Impacts the Health of Poor Americans | Atlanta Black Star Home is where the heart is, but it is also where the health is. Last week, researchers at Princeton released a study that found that poor Black neighborhoods produce children (whether Black or not) with a higher risk of asthma than children in other neighborhoods. The study findings prove, yet again, that racism in housing markets has a negative effect on African-American health. African American Health, African American History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 15, 2017August 15, 2017 Los Angeles midwives aim to end racial disparities at birth | Aljazeera America A movement of black midwives is working to stem the rates of African-American babies dying for preventable reasons. African American Health, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 10, 2017August 10, 2017 Discounting Black Children: How the Racially Skewed Economics of Adoption Devalue Black Lives | Atlanta Black Star It’s a menu unlike any other. Or, paradoxically, it’s a menu too much like any other, where economics determines the value of the listed commodities. Adoption, African American Families, African American Health, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
July 24, 2017July 24, 2017 Foster Care as Punishment: The New Reality of ‘Jane Crow’ | The New York Times Maisha Joefield thought she was getting by pretty well as a young single mother in Brooklyn, splurging on her daughter, Deja, even though money was tight. African American Families, African American Health, African American News, Foster Care, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
