Chronic absenteeism among Black students has risen to 40% compared to 24% of white students, exacerbating the Black-white education gap and potentially worsening Black high school graduation rates and future opportunities.
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Posted inRobert Wood Johnson Foundation
Black Women Face Earlier Menopause Onset and Inadequate Care
Black women experience earlier onset, more severe symptoms, and different levels of care during menopause compared to white women, due to systemic racism, socioeconomic conditions, and lack of culturally competent providers.
Posted inHealth
Kevin Byrd Advocates for Prostate Cancer Awareness
Kevin Byrd, an actor and advocate, has been promoting prostate cancer awareness for over 30 years through his one-man show and the Brown Byrd Foundation, which has grown to include over 100 cities and states.
Posted inSocial Justice
World Refugee Day Workshop Spotlights Lived Experiences to Foster Empathy, Peacebuilding
Refugees and advocacy organizations such as Noir United International and N&Y Creative Solutions are using events like World Refugee Day to raise awareness of the plight of refugees and their struggle for a peaceful home.
Posted inHealth
Surviving Summer’s First Heat Wave
The current heat wave, caused by a high-pressure system that traps hot air, is causing record-breaking temperatures and is expected to worsen this summer, with urban, predominantly Black neighborhoods suffering the most.
Posted inEducation
What California Education Cuts Could Mean for Black Students
The Trump administration’s proposal to cut nearly $8 billion in federal education funding for California could exacerbate the state’s Black student crisis, which already projects that California’s Black K-12 public school students won’t reach reading proficiency until 2070 and math proficiency until 2089.
Posted inCulture
From Middle-School Teacher to Gullah ‘Culture Keeper’
Anita Singleton Prather, a former middle school teacher, has been called by God to share the stories of God’s people, particularly those who look and live like her, through the Gullah Traveling Theater, Inc., in order to preserve the values of resilience, optimism, tenacity, and faith that have carried her ancestors through generations.
Posted inKFF Health News
‘We Need to Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize to Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding
HIV advocates are organizing to counter the Trump administration’s cuts to federal HIV funding, which has led to testing and outreach for HIV faltering in the South and could result in an additional 14,600 HIV-related deaths within the next five years.
Posted inTravel
Americans Warned: You Could Be a Target
The U.S. State Department has issued a rare worldwide travel advisory, warning American citizens to exercise extreme caution abroad due to the potential for demonstrations and retaliatory attacks following President Trump’s airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites.
Posted inNational
Words that echo: The lasting impact of song lyrics on Black communities
No matter the genre- lyrics hold power. Whether the words to your favorite song praise God or celebrate life and love, there’s no denying that many times one of the […]
