Ebony Steele of “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” is a breast cancer survivor, but unfortunately, many Black women do not survive after being diagnosed. Incidents of breast cancer in Black women are lower, but the death risk is greater. Why? Take a look at the vide below to find out why breast cancer hits black […]

How can the Moving Forward breast cancer program help black women live longer? Although breast cancer (BC) survival has steadily improved for European American (EA) women over the past few decades, similar improvements have not been observed for African American (AA) women. In 2006, 32 BC deaths were reported nationally for every 100,000 women-years among […]

Black women view themselves as especially self-confident and independent-minded-more so than Caucasian women. In a recent poll conducted by beauty mag Allure magazine, Black women rated themselves three times as likely as Caucasian women to rate themselves at the ‘hot’ end of the spectrum. Tell us something we don’t know! Black women have always viewed […]

I recently came across an article on Essence.com that discusses how women in the African American community view themselves. As a black woman, what interests you? What do you want? What would you like to see changed? These are some of the questions Essence.com asked its readers and partnered with a market research company to […]