Following the devastating news of the death of the world’s beloved Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, from colorectal cancer, many were left asking why – and how. What most don’t know is that Chadwick Boseman sat at the intersection of where colorectal cancer rates are among the highest and rising the fastest. He was a young… Read More: Colorectal Cancer Takes the Life of Far Too Many People… »
Before COVID-19, Purdue University English professor Dorsey Armstrong was well known in a way that only other enthusiasts of medieval literature and culture might appreciate. That is to say, she once got a discount on a replica of an Anglo-Saxon drinking horn — made from an actual cattle horn — because a guy at a… Read More: Bingeing on Doom: Expert on the ‘Black Death’ Attracts Cult… »
Incredible Health’s founders Iman Abuzeid and Rome Portlock. Source: Nico Zurcher When Iman Abuzeid was raising her last round of financing, she stepped into a Silicon Valley venture firm in business casual attire and was immediately mistaken for a Postmates delivery driver. Abuzeid, who trained as a physician before enrolling in a business degree in… Read More: Investors are missing out on black founders with great companies,… »
NEW YORK, NY – MAY 11 : After checking the food and essential items that were delivered to her, … [+] Sevonna Brown of Black Women’s Blueprint looks at her son, Panther Herd, 2, on May 11, 2020 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough in New York City. Neighborhood mutual aid groups have… Read More: Black Children More Likely To Suffer Kawasaki-Like Coronavirus Inflammatory Condition »