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Georgia Davis Powers, first African American Kentucky senator, (1923–2016) Moneta Sleet Jr., first African American Pulitzer Prize winner in photography (1926–1996) [9] Allen Allensworth, chaplain (1842–1914) bell hooks, author, academic, essayist, activist, born in Kentucky and came back to her land (1952–2021).
The event, which included partner organizations such as Kentucky African Americans Against Cancer, also had music, vendors, food trucks, a financial literacy program hosted by Republic Bank and ...
The cancer incidence rate among African Americans is 10% higher than among European Americans [33] and the mortality rate from asthma is twice the rate of European Americans. [34] African Americans are found to have some of the highest rates of chronic Hepatitis C and Hepatitis C-related deaths in comparison to other populations. [35]
Project S.W.W.A.C. (Sigmas Waging War Against Cancer) is a concentrated and coordinated effort to reduce the incidence of cancer in the African-American community. Through a partnership with the American Cancer Society, the goal of Project S.W.W.A.C. is to increase awareness, with a strong emphasis on early detection and prevention of prostate ...
Seven researchers from across the U.S. recently released a joint commentary calling out the lack of cancer research focusing on Asian Americans, who are disproportionately affected by the disease.
The Black Bottom Historic District is a historic African American community located in Russellville, Kentucky. [1] It is bounded by E. 5th and 7th Sts., Bowling Green Rd. and Morgan St. [ 2 ] Civil rights activist Charles Neblett worked in the neighborhood.
Robert Fox (c. 1846–1933) was an African-American activist who sparked a civil rights battle in Louisville, Kentucky in October 1870 by entering a segregated streetcar. He was born in Kentucky to Albert and Margaret Fox [1] and worked as an undertaker and a grocer. He died in 1933. [citation needed]
Mary Ellen Britton (1855–1925) was an American physician, educator, suffragist, journalist and civil rights activist from Lexington, Kentucky.Britton was an original member of the Kentucky Negro Education Association, which formed in 1877.