Study: Socio-Economic Status is Linked to Obesity in Black Women
A new study is finding that a black woman’s socioeconomic status is directly linked to her propensity toward Obesity. A study at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University is saying that black women in lower socioeconomic conditions are more likely to be unhealthy and overweight. The findings are set to appear in the journal [...]
Massive Child S*x Trafficking Ring Exposed on Video
“I was raped. I was beat. I was hit by a car. I’ve had guns pulled out on me. I was forced to do all kinds of unimaginable things.” These were the words of a young woman named Jessica, who was part of a massive s*x trafficking ring in Los Angeles. Video has just been [...]
Natasha Trethewey Leveraged a Personal Tragedy to Become 19th US Poet Laureate
Natasha Trethewey began to write poems when she was a freshman in college. The young woman was faced with an unspeakable tragedy, as her mother was murdered by the step father she once feared. “I started writing poems as a response to that great loss, much the way that people responded, for example, after 9/11,” [...]
Child Brides Being Kidnapped, Believed to be a Cure for HIV
The CNN Freedom Project tells the story about young women being kidnapped as child brides by those who believe that having s*x with a young girl can cure their HIV. In many African villages, girls as young as 12 years old are kidnapped and forced to marry older men. They speak of the term “Ukuthwala,” [...]
Unplanned Pregnancies 20 times More Likely with the Birth Control Pill than IUD
A new study shows that women who use birth control pills, the patch or vaginal ring are 20 times more likely to have an unintended pregnancy than those who use an intrauterine device (IUD) or implant. The statistics are especially concerning for women under 21, for whom the risk of unplanned pregnancy when using birth [...]
Domestic Violence Victim Rep. Gwen Moore Introduces the Violence Against Women Act (Video)
Congress is now fighting over the details of the Violence Against Women Act. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis) speaks about her own experience as a victim of abuse to highlight the importance of protecting women against domestic violence. The bill has passed the house, but the White House has threatened to veto the bill because [...]
Dr. Boyce: Delta Sigma Theta’s Treatment of AIDS Activist Hardly Reflects Sisterhood
by Dr. Boyce Watkins This week, AIDS activist Rae Lewis-Thornton was inexplicably booted out of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority for reasons that don’t make a lot of sense to me. In a passionate and revealing video that she released to the world, Lewis-Thornton says that the Executive Director of the sorority, Rose McKinney, took issue with some [...]
Women Cleared of Raping Men to Collect Their s***n for Rituals
Prosecutors have dropped charges against three Zimbabwean women accused of raping male hitch-hikers to collect s***n for rituals, after DNA evidence exonerated them, their lawyer said Thursday. “The state has withdrawn the charges,” Dumisani Mthombeni told AFP. “The police arrested the wrong people. We have always been saying that and the prosecution was buying time to delay the trial [...]
Dr. Boyce: Basketball Wives Boycott Gains Thousands of Followers – Awesome
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, KultureKritic.com An amazing lady by the name of Alexis M. has engaged in a one-woman campaign to take on the dastardly behemoth otherwise known as “Basketball Wives.” As a woman on a mission, Alexis has accumulated thousands of signatures for her petition to stop the production of spinoff “Ev and Ocho,” [...]
Dr. Boyce: If Someone’s Falsely Accused of Rape, All Liars Should be in Prison
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, KultureKritic.com There’s nothing like using Facebook to say “I’m sorry for sending you to prison after falsely accusing you of kidnap and rape.” That’s what happened to Brian Banks, after his accuser friended him on Facebook hoping that he could “let bygones be bygones” on a false rape and kidnapping conviction [...]
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