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...director of the Center for Vulnerable Populations at the University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco General Hospital. "We would have completely missed this at-risk group had we only been looking at older age groups. We would have also missed them if we had not been studying African Americans in large numbers." (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs of the past year...
...number of individuals with controlled blood pressure is embarrassingly low," says Yancy. "That indicates a problem not only of understanding the biology of blood pressure, and why it occurs more frequently in young African Americans, but also why we aren't intervening more aggressively and effectively to treat it. Does it represent some form of bias? Of stereotyping? Or lack of access to care...
...probably a combination of all of those factors that prevents adequate treatment of hypertension in the black community, and the end result is that African Americans are more likely to develop further risk factors for heart disease, none of which are being treated aggressively enough to protect this population from early illness. "Our ability to intervene early and appropriately is limited," says Yancy. "That is something that we need to change because I think it's a crisis." Studies like this one that document the problem could be an important first step in sounding the alarm...
...Harvard’s Hiphop Archive founder and Executive Director, Marcyliena Morgan. “You get [radio stations saying] ‘let’s play these songs about someone’s butt,’” said Morgan, a professor of African and African American Studies. To exchange ideas and promote dialogue surrounding issues of global hip-hop, the Hiphop Archive hosted a conference this week entitled “Hiphop Worldwide: More than a Nation,” which brought together hip-hop artists, scholars, DJs, and authors. Founded in 2002, the mission...
...made genuine diversity [in journalism] normal, allowing all kinds of people—African Americans, women, and young people alike—to appear on the longest-running primetime public affairs program on television,” Jones said of Ifill’s presence on Washington Week...