By Tarice L. S. Gray
In 2011, there were nearly 3 million breast cancer survivors in this country. Dee Dee Ricks is one of them. She’s the subject the HBO documentary “The Education of Dee Dee Ricks” which walks us through her treatment and charges that the health care system doesn’t play fair.

By Stacey Patton My Dear Sisters, Over the past week or so I’ve read many tweets, Facebook postings, blog rants, and online petitions in response to Psychology Today’s posting of a ‘scientific’ study – “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women” by Satoshi Kanazawa. The reaction to Kanazawa’s armchair psychobabble which was [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today on whether the lawsuit of female employees of Wal-Mart pressing a sex-discrimination claim against the retail giant could go to trial as a class-action.

By TaRessa Stovall
Why a personal instead of an official apology for the lack of justice in a Jim Crow attack whose victim is still alive…and waiting?

By Tarice L.S. Gray
Does the economic downturn mean an increase in domestic violence? The recession and its aftermath has been blamed for a rise in domestic violence. One in every four women in this country could be a victim, and it may be getting worse.

By George E. Curry
Medical trials now underway in the very region most ravaged by the virus hold the best prospect of finally controlling the disease for which there is no known cure.

By TaRessa Stovall
A trio of new products designed to protect against rape and STDs, especially HIV/AIDS, raises questions about the gaps and conflicts between scientific progress, lifestyle logistics and human nature. These recent developments also call into question the age-old role of Black bodies as test sites for potential progress.

By The Editors
Researchers in South Africa announced this week the development of a vaginal microbicidal gel that in clinical trials has sharply reduced the possibility of women contracting H.I.V. from infected partners.

By Jill Nelson
As a black woman feminist, more often than not to say in public what I actually think about policy or politics, and particularly to challenge the designated roles black women are assigned in this culture, results in being attacked and dismissed as overbearing, demanding, intimidating, emasculating, or in contemporary, all-inclusive jargon, a hater. The sad truth is that too often black men seem most comfortable when black women in the public sphere are silent, long-suffering, old, or all of the above.

By TaRessa Stovall
The anti-abortion movement, which made recent headlines for controversial billboards targeting African-American women in Georgia, suffered a setback on April 30 when Bill 1155, referred to as “The OB/GYN Criminalization and Racial Discrimination Act” failed to move forward in the Georgia House of Representatives after having been passed by the Senate.