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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).
Kentucky African Americans Against Cancer will also have cancer screenings and education during the Kentucky State Fair in the South Wing of the Kentucky Exposition Center, 937 Phillips Lane.
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]
SEER collects and publishes cancer incidence and survival data from population-based cancer registries covering approximately 34.6% of the population of the United States. SEER coverage includes 30.0% of African Americans, 44% of Hispanics, 49.3% of American Indians and Alaska Natives, 57.5% of Asians, and 68.5% of Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders. [3]
They produced and co-hosted a weekly radio program, The Afro-American in Indiana, which ran from 1971 to 1991 on WIAN, the local public schools station, eventually affiliated with National Public Radio; [19] served as editors of a journal, The Afro-American Journal, begun in 1973; [20] produced and co-hosted the television program, Afro ...
Violence against Black people was a fairly common occurrence, but in Corbin, the goal was total erasure. Barter Theatre challenged me to create a monologue, a dramatic piece performed by one actor.
Ruth Booker-Bryant fought hard for causes fighting for social and human rights. Throughout her career as a civil rights activist she was a part of multiple organizations and demonstrations fighting for better housing for Kentucky African Americans. Her first major role was being a VISTA coordinator for the West End Community Council from 1964 ...
The Red Cross Hospital was the only place in Kentucky that African American's could be trained as a nurse until 1937. [2] Merritt spent most of her career as a nurse educator at the Red Cross Hospital where most African Nurses in Kentucky received their training. [3] She was the Superintendent of nursing from 1914 to 1945. [2] Merritt retired ...