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More Black Men in Prison Today Than Enslaved in 1850
aColorLines’ Thoai Lu is reporting that the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that as of 2008, there were more than 846,000 black men in prison, making up 40.2 percent of all inmates in the system. The article highlights a recent talk given by author Michelle Alexander, who puts those numbers in context. Alexander, author…
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Woe, NewsOne for black America reports that African American Female HIV Rates Now Rival Africa
As we prepare to recognize National Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day, a new research study has served as a wake up call for a community that might have gone too far. The Center for Disease Control now estimates that 1 out of every 32 black women will be infected with HIV during her lifetime.…
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WOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEO4z4Y0cmw Jsais: This show was broadcasted in 2004; the AIDs rates among black women have more than tripled since the showed aired. How is it that we have not gotten the picture? This has been an epidemic for more than 20 years. It’s time for us to wake up, time to be conscious about what’s…
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The Body website presents “White Women and HIV”
The Hidden Epidemic: White Women and HIV By Terri L. Wilder, M.S.W. From AIDS Survival Project September 2001 “People see me — I’m blonde, I live at the beach, I’m the girl next door — and when we go into schools, you should see their faces change when I tell them I’m HIV positive. That’s…
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Disclaimer
Jsais: To those of you who are wondering why I’m going black girl AIDs crazy, let me start off by saying this; No I’m not HIV positive, and no I do not have the monster! Yes a sista does get it in, but because I’m single, I trust no one, condoms are must. I am…
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CBS presents “Out of Control AIDs in Black America”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEO4z4Y0cmw This show was broadcasted in 2004; the AIDs rates among black women have more than tripled since the showed aired. How is it that we have not gotten the picture? This has been an epidemic for more than 20 years. It’s time for us to wake up, time to be conscious about what’s going…
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Top 25 cities in the United States with the Highest HIV Rates in 2011.
According to a MediaTakeOut.com survey, here is the list of the Top 25 cities in the U.S. with the Highest HIV rates……. 1.Miami, FL 37.2 64,573 2 Baton Rouge, LA 30.6 4,565 3 Jacksonville, FL 29.1 7,292 4 New York, NY-NJ-PA 27 223,508 5 Washington, DC-VA-MD-WV 26.6 37,916 6 Columbia, SC 23.5 3,949 7 Memphis,…
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AIDs and marriage
JSAIS: In my opinion, I know we all have one,,,,but I have a few….. I feel it’s time to start looking closely at the ideas we have been hammered with over the years, the ones we try so hard to live up to, and if we fall short feel that we have failed. The myth…
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