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By MICHAEL TORTORELLO
Published: June 13, 2012

DONALDSONVILLE, La.

ENSLAVED Africans did not win their freedom in order to starve. Kathe Hambrick-Jackson knew that much from her work as the founder and executive director of the River Road African American Museum here in this town, 60-odd miles up the Mississippi from New Orleans.
But Ms. Hambrick-Jackson, 54, likes to [...]

tbb wishes to thank the The Rebecca Project for Human Rights, United Africans for Women & Children Rights, and the National Council of Negro Women for bringing this information to light.

Source: A Nation of Change
A new policy brief faults prominent institutions and drug companies like Pfizer, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and Population Council, [...]

Source: TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, NY Times
A class-action lawsuit was filed Thursday against a prominent Baltimore medical institute, accusing it of knowingly exposing black children as young as a year old to lead poisoning in the 1990s as part of a study exploring the hazards of lead paint.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs say that more than 100 children [...]

The Jackson Heart Study is the largest single-site, prospective, epidemiologic investigation of cardiovascular disease among African Americans ever undertaken. It is a population-based longitudinal study. The study site is Jackson, Mississippi. The Jackson Heart Study exemplifies a unique collaborative model among three institutional partners, the Jackson community, and the National Institutes of [...]

Source: Science Daily
A national transplant policy change designed to give African-American patients greater access to donor kidneys has sliced in half the racial disparities that have long characterized the allocation of lifesaving organs, new Johns Hopkins research suggests.
Before 2003, the researchers note, an African-American patient who joined the kidney transplant list on the same day [...]

Once You Learn How to Read, You Will Be Forever Free!~Frederick Douglass
REVIEW Author Preston Lauterbach lives with his wife and children in Memphis, Tennessee. The Chitlin’ Circuit is his first book.
Preston was born in Richmond, Virginia and raised in San Diego, California. He graduated from Flagler College and the University of Mississippi. For most [...]

Science & Technology Beyond The Imagination
Within the last 5 years many automotive corporations and companies have been faced with desperate times due to the soaring fuel cost, the credit crunch, and a significant decline in vehicle sales. These unprecedented events created a devastating financial impact on the automotive sector. In an effort to remain viable [...]

By urbanprofile– October 15, 2010
Raymond F. Gist, D.D.S., a Flint, Mich., general dentist is the 2010-2011 president of the American Dental Association (ADA). Dr. Gist’s induction took place during the ADA’s 151st Annual Session in Orlando, Fla.
Dr. Gist is the first African-American president of the 157,000 dentist member organization, the nation’s oldest and largest [...]

Once You Learn How to Read, You Will Be Forever Free!~Frederick Douglass
REVIEW One of the foremost orthopedic surgeons in the world, Dr. Augustus A. White III, was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of a doctor and a librarian. Attending segregated schools in Memphis, he graduated from the private Mount Herman School in [...]

By Trish Regan
The story of marijuana’s growing acceptance in America begins in the Colorado Rockies, where cannabis is meeting capitalism head-on.

Once a month, at his downtown Denver restaurant, chef Scott Durrah teaches a cooking class. It’s well attended, mostly by retired and affluent boomers. It’s exactly the market Durrah and his wife and business partner [...]