Since 1995, the ongoing Black Women's Health Study (BWHS) has been documenting the higher rates of many illnesses that disproportionately affect African American women, such as hypertension, breast cancer, diabetes, stroke, and lupus. Led by researchers at Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center, the BWHS has followed 59,000 African American women through a biennial questionnaire.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin school district has refused to get rid of its Indian nickname and logo despite a court ruling supporting a state order to drop it.
Legislators passed a law in 2010 giving the state Department of Public Instruction the authority to force schools to drop race-based nicknames, logos and mascots if a complaint was filed and the agency found the names or images were discriminatory.
MAGNOLIA, Ark. (AP) - In the early 1900s, a Jewish man in Chicago, Ill., with no apparent connection to the South, began building schools for blacks in the rural South. Julius Rosenwald would become one of the most significant figures in Southern black education - and would eventually leave his mark in a small community right here in southwest Arkansas.
That school was the forerunner of the Free Hope Community Center, earlier known as the Free Hope Civic League.
This year - 2012 - marks the centennial of the Rosenwald School program.
African-American children are nine times more likely and Hispanic children three times more likely than white children to have a parent in prison. Thanks go to the State of Idaho for assembling a national fact sheet, which gives us a snapshot of the plight of these children who are often the forgotten victims of crime. The average age of children with an incarcerated parent is eight years old; 22 percent of the children are under the age of five. And there’s more bad news.
