A humanitarian is often described as someone who has a genuine concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people. Fitting that definition is Dr. Mwelwa Mulenga, vice president for Energy and Infrastructure for the Los Angeles-Lusaka Sister City Committee and a scholar-practitioner in entrepreneurship and organizational leadership.
Every year people across the world make a resolution to dedicate themselves to a healthier lifestyle.
Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a high-performing “Best Hospital” in maternity care for 2022-23, thanks to the delivery of high-quality services to expectant mothers.
Gina Higdon’ Davis capitalizes on her nurturing characteristics and platform to save lives. As the first black nurse at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center to produce her very own blood drive, “Ginarosity” is dedicated to black health.
We are living in unusual and challenging times, when despair and despondency have replaced hope as a more common, and perhaps as the more acceptable lens, through which too many of us view the future.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released that Black women are 40% more likely to die of breast cancer than white women. One in eight women born today will have breast cancer in their lifetime, however, many women still lack proper education on breast health.
Your brain is an amazing organ. It helps you walk, talk, think, eat, breathe, and remember things. It works all day and night, silently in the background. It is a body part that is critical to life, but we don’t often think about what we can do to keep our brains healthy.
Unfortunately, death becomes an unwanted visitor to our homes and family leaving pain, suffering and hurt. Last week my oldest male cousin on the paternal side of my family, Benny Rene Harris, passed away. We were both raised by our grandmother, but due to our age difference we spent limited time together. Like many of us, Ben’s life had many ups and downs, highs and lows, sorrows, and setbacks. But I am proud to say during the last decade of his life, he truly dedicated his life and work to serving the Lord. He was active in his church and various other ministries extending his gifts and talents anyway and anywhere he could. Over the years Ben and I had established a routine of checking in weekly to see how the other one was doing and what was going on in our lives. One day he shared with me that he was not feeling well and that something was wrong. I urged him to go to the doctor and get checked out. For some reason many men, especially Black men hesitate to go to the doctor. After getting checked he found out that he was struggling with various illnesses including cancer.
ATTR-CM) is an underdiagnosed and potentially fatal disease, according to the American Heart Association, the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke.
Inequality in education is one of the most fossilized civil rights issues that one can still witness today. There is a lot of discourse and imbalance found in the unequal funding and lack of federal or state priority within community-driven colleges of color. Recently, there has been meteoric change in social awareness, which is bringing more light to the current state of the educational system for people within the Black Community.
Some healthcare providers say African Americans have never been healthier, while others claim they have never been more at risk. Still others marvel over African Americans having been able to survive at all.
Many consumers still plan on signing up for healthcare during the open enrollment period