Sunday, October 31, 2010

THE DAVID C. DRISKELL CENTER AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS GRANT FROM THE INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES

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COLLEGE PARK, MD. – The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora ...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

"Make a Splash with Cullen Jones" to raise awareness of importance of learning to swim

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Olympic Gold Medalist to visit Centenary Nov. 10 SHREVEPORT, La. (Centenary News Service) — Following the tragic drowning deaths of six teen...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Study finds race, ethnicity impact access to care for children with frequent ear infections

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Study finds race, ethnicity impact access to care for children with frequent ear infections. Ear infections are one of the most common healt...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

UT Alumnus and Art Historian Robert Hobbs to Lecture on Thursday

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KNOXVILLE — UT Knoxville alumnus Robert Hobbs has curated dozens of exhibitions around the globe. This week, he’s visiting the UT Knoxville ...
Monday, October 25, 2010

UB Law School Mitchell Lecture Features International Law Scholar Henry J. Richardson III

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Henry J. Richardson III, a leading international law scholar with special interest in Africa, will deliver the 2010 Mitchell Lecture at the ...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

African American Males Drive City Schools’ Record Improvements in Dropout, Graduation

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The record, three-year gains Baltimore City Public Schools reported in its dropout and graduation rates earlier this month were largely driv...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

UND political scientist writes new book about Voting Rights Act

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Associate Provost Steven Light says Act didn't end racial discrimination Barack Obama crushed a major racial barrier in 2008 when he was...
Friday, October 22, 2010

HHS' Office of Minority Health Awards $16.2 Million to Help Eliminate Health Disparities among Racial and Ethnic Minorities

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HHS' Office of Minority Health Awards $16.2 Million to Help Eliminate Health Disparities among Racial and Ethnic Minorities. The U.S. De...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

New Data Shows Chicago Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Mortality Continue to Be Significantly Higher than National Average

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Disparities in breast cancer mortality continued to be unacceptably high in Chicago and significantly larger than the national average accor...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Betty Lester, Renee Weeks and Michael Wright, Distinguished Jurists and Rutgers–Newark Law Alums, to Be Honored at “Jazz for Justice”

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NEWARK, NJ – The Association of Black Law Students (ABLS) at Rutgers School of Law–Newark will recognize the contributions to the State’s le...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

VEGETABLE CONSUMPTION ASSOCIATED WITH DECREASED RISK OF ESTROGEN RECEPTOR-NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN

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(Boston) - Investigators from the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have reported that African Americ...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Genetic data related to sodium-regulating hormone may help explain hypertension risk in populations of African ancestry

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These news tips provide information reported from research presented at the American Heart Association’s High Blood Pressure research 2010 S...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Focused, Personal Approach for African American Women Aims to Increase Breast Imaging to Reduce Breast Cancer

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An African American woman in Chicago is more than twice as likely to die of breast cancer compared with a White woman according to the Metro...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Christopher Paul Curtis to speak at University of Minnesota Book Week 70th anniversary, Oct. 21

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Award-winning author Christopher Paul Curtis will help the University of Minnesota celebrate 70 years of Book Week when he gives a lecture T...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Southern Stitches to be on display at KFAC

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Morehead State University’s Kentucky Folk Art Center has announced a new exhibition titled “Southern Stitches: African-American Quilts from ...
Saturday, October 9, 2010

African-Americans with high blood pressure need treatment sooner, more aggressively, according to international medical group

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Study highlights: * An international medical group recommends African-Americans be treated for blood pressure at lower threshold levels than...
Friday, October 8, 2010

Award-winning Filmmaker Addresses Black Aesthetics as Politics

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The award-winning African-American author and filmmaker M.K. Asante will speak about the role that art plays in black political life. The Of...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

WSSU Group Working to End Strokes Through Education and Awareness

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Rams Fighting Against High Blood Pressure and Stroke at Winston-Salem State University began their work this semester by presenting a specia...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Children, males and blacks are at increased risk for food allergies

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A new study estimates that 2.5 percent of the United States population, or about 7.6 million Americans, have food allergies. Food allergy ra...
Monday, October 4, 2010

Honorée Jeffers to be featured in Reading Series

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Morehead State University’s Reading Series will feature poet and scholar Honorée Jeffers for a poetry reading on Thursday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m...