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Black Health 101

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our daily newsletter. Thanks for visiting!Health in the Black community is a topic that many people avoid, but needs to be addressed.  Black people are historically and genetically most prone to strokes, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc.  You name it……we got it.  That [...]

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Mental Segregation

Today, I want to address the issue of segregation. Of course, we all know that there is no longer legal segregation in the United States, but for the most part, there is still mental segregation. Recently, I’ve noticed that most Black people tend to segregate themselves at public functions. If you go to any public [...]

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To be Black is to Be Ghetto

The other day I was watching SportsCenter, when I heard Ron Artest make one of the most ignorant comments that I’ve ever heard in my life. Artest, who has a reputation for being a hot-headed and ill-tempered basketball player, was recently traded to the Houston Rockets.
 
When asked about the trade, Yao Ming said, “Hopefully, [...]

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