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After exploiting her for research, Johns Hopkins University to name building after Henrietta Lacks
Johns Hopkins University announced plans to name its newest interdisciplinary building after Henreitta Lacks during its ninth annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture on Saturday morning. The building is expected to be completed in 2022 and a groundbreaking ceremony will occur in 2020 according to Johns Hopkins Magazine. Lacks was a cancer patient at Johns Hopkins […]
New research strengthens connection between Flint water crisis and reproductive injustice
When the government cuts corners, it risks the most vulnerable lives. To that end, new research suggests that after Flint, Michigan leadership changed its water source from Detroit-supplied to the contaminated Flint River, reproductive injustice followed. The water change was purportedly undertaken to balance the budget. The decision caused lead exposure increases, yielded decreased birth […]
UC Davis researchers find inter-ethnic socialization improves youth’s grades
When I was in elementary school, one of a handful of brown faces in any given classroom at the time, Clueless hit movie theaters. My socially conscious and academic parents maintained television limitations and screened entertainment to determine age-appropriateness. When I finally saw the film, I was close to middle school age. One of my […]
BYP Joins $18Mil Research Effort to Shed Light on Women and Girls of Color
Black Youth Project is one of 25 universities and research centers that are funding a new effort to study opportunity and empowerment for women and girls of color.
Research from Temple University could lead to cure for AIDS
Temple University researchers announced a major step forward in the battle against AIDS and the HIV virus. Researchers successfully eliminated the HIV virus from cultured human cells for the first time.
Researchers discover link between racism & infant mortality, learning disabilities
Two Emory University studies have found connections between racism and premature birth and infant mortality in African American babies. The stress created in women’s bodies after decades of dealing with racism, increases the odds of a mother not carrying her child to full term.
President announces $100M HIV research initiative
President Barack Obama has announced a new initiative to combat the spread of the HIV virus. His administration is redirecting $100 million into the project which will live at the National Institutes of Health.
Southern University researcher receives $900,000 to prevent AIDS
Dr. Alma Thornton is the director of the Center for Social Research at Southern University Baton Rouge. She was recently awarded a three-year, $900,000 federal grant to assist in the prevention of HIV/AIDS and substance abuse.
New Research Suggests President Obama is the Descendant of Slaves
Today, the genealogy website Ancestry.com released research suggesting that President Barack Obama is the descendant of slaves–on his mother’s side. Thoughts on this latest journey into the POTUS’ heritage?
BYP Researcher Raises Money for Academic Conference on ‘Jersey Shore’ at the University of Chicago
BYP Researcher Raises Money for Academic Conference on ‘Jersey Shore’ at the University of Chicago Huffington Post | May 19, 2011 For many, the “Jersey Shore” is a guilty pleasure, but for University of Chicago student and reality television enthusiast David Showalter, it is a social experiment worthy of critical analysis. Earlier this month, Showalter […]
Belonging Matters: How Researchers Can Halve the Race Gap in GPA
Belonging Matters: How Researchers Can Halve the Race Gap in GPA Maia Szalavitz, Time Magazine | March 18, 2011 The racial gap in achievement between African American and white college students has been stubbornly persistent, but an hour-long intervention conducted during students’ freshman year can halve the GPA lag by graduation time while simultaneously improving health, […]
We Were Taught to Be Useful Before We Were Allowed to Be Human
by DeLisha Tapscott, Ed.D. I learned to be useful long before I understood what labor was. Long before I had language for work, worth, or expectation, I understood that being helpful mattered. Being capable mattered. Being low-maintenance mattered. Those traits were praised early, offered as signs of maturity and goodness, folded into what it meant […]