African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.

Men, women and children, our fellow countrymen have now gone days - days - without food and far too long without clean water and medical attention. They are surrounded by flood waters littered with dead bodies and human feces. To the president of the United States, I simply say that God cannot be pleased with our response.

Forty percent of new AIDS cases can be traced back to a dirty needle.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.