Merone bravely tells her story as she undergoes chemotherapy and prepares for her mastectomy.
10/14/16- Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with Carla Youngblood, a breast cancer survivor and a comedian. “I had a pain in my chest and for the most part breast cancer isn’t painful. I would lay down and I would say it was heart burn, but after a few days of that, I went ahead and went to […]
Avon Foundation for Women data found that nationally Black women were 43 percent more likely to die from this disease.
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Paulette Leaphart his finally arrived in Washington D.C. after setting out on a mission to walk from Biloxi, Mississipi, to the Nation’s Capitol to talk about health care reform and raise breast cancer awareness. The breast cancer survivor set foor in D.C. on June 27, just under two months from the day she left home […]
Paulette Leaphart, a cast member in Beyoncé‘s visual album and artistic triumph Lemonade, left her hometown of Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 30th determined to walk the 1,034 miles to Washington, D.C. — and she did it topless. The daring move was intended to make a statement to Congress about breast cancer. The single mother-of-eight was diagnosed with Stage 2 […]
Jacque Reid talks to Dr. Sheri Prentiss, a board certified occupational and environmental medicine physician and breast cancer survivor. She’s also the national spokesperson for the Susan…
On Thursday, the American Cancer Society released a shocking new report with disturbing findings — for the first time in history, breast cancer incidence in Black women is equal to that of their White counterparts. The statistics were a shocking blow as Black women’s mortality rate has consistently been higher than any other racial or […]
Though many of us overlook breast cancer because it may not be a disease we've personally struggled with, chances are we all know someone who has.