via News5: On most Saturday nights, you’ll find Mig’s Pla-Mor Roller Rink in Euclid packed with people skating. This culture is making it’s way back to Cleveland after a hiatus, but even now it’s nothing like it was back in the 1950s and 1960s when the original Pla-Mor was still standing. CLICK HERE to read […]
via BlackDoctor: About 189,910 new cancer cases were expected to be diagnosed among Blacks in 2016. One of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in the black community is lung cancer. Black men, in particular, make up for 15% of those cases and black women make up for 11%. However, although many may already know that […]
via Wkyc: As a Cleveland police commander, William Tell saw a lot. But there’s something he never saw in his 31 years on the force. “I never came to work one day where I knew a police officer, white or black, who came to work and said, I’m going to kill me somebody black today,” […]
Kevin Winter/Getty Images The 2016 ESPY Awards started out with an epic speech from basketball’s biggest stars.LeBron James, 31, Chris Paul, 31, Carmelo Anthony, 32, and Dwyane Wade, 34, stood before the audience and pleaded for us all to take part in ending the violence in America. They have had “enough” of the senseless shootings […]
Yes, it’s 2016 – nearly 35 years since the first cases of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. But, the sexually transmitted disease is just as dangerous today as it was years ago. More than 37 million people were living with HIV by the end of 2014, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). And since the […]
A new analysis of federal data found that Southern schools disproportionately suspend and expel African American students at rates higher than their representation in the student population. Nationally, 1.2 million black students were suspended from K-12 public schools in 2011-2012, the most recent year for which federal data is available. Thirteen Southern states are responsible […]
People with type 2 diabetes who don’t always have enough money for food have worse blood sugar control than people who don’t worry about where their next meal will come from, new research finds. “We talk about healthy eating a lot in diabetes education, but we also need to talk about food accessibility. We need […]
According to new data from the Department of Education, graduation rates for Black and Hispanic students increased by nearly four percentage points from 2011 to 2013, outpacing…
Here’s some good news you probably won’t read a lot about: Black and Latino students have cut their dropout rates by more than half over…
Dark-skinned people produce more melanin — the pigment that gives skin its color — than Caucasians. Melanin helps block damaging ultraviolet rays from the sun and from artificial light sources such as tanning beds, giving people of color greater protection against skin cancer than whites. But they still are susceptible. That’s what Betty Jordan, a […]
In a recent BlackPlanet/NewsOne poll, 74 percent of African Americans polled approve of President Obama’s handling of the economy while 26 percent disapprove.
In a recent BlackPlanet/NewsOne poll, 74 percent of African Americans polled approve of President Obama’s handling of the economy while 26 percent disapprove.
