23 February 2012

That’s a Fact: Young, Gifted & Black

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Bunker Hill Community College held the opening reception Feb. 9 for its latest exhibit “That’s a Fact: Young, Gifted and Black.” Many of the area’s best and brightest artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and photographers were invited to display and celebrate their art. It was exciting to attend because it almost looked like a modern day Harlem Renaissance gathering.

During the 1920s and 1930s many African-Americans moved to the North as part of the Great Migration. Many of those migrants had creative aspirations and made their way to Harlem. These artists used their work to express the new black identity; many of them influenced by self-determination, the Jazz Age and the racial bigotry of the time. Like their Harlem forefathers, the young artists in this exhibit are expressing their own black identity, only this time their influences are hip-hop culture and their pride in having a black man in the White House.

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28 March 2011

Marteniz Brown on HIV & Tolerance

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HIV activist Marteniz Brown spoke before the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Washington DC March 25, 2011 about his life and the importance of discussing HIV and tolerance in the black community

28 March 2011

Dazon Diallo on HIV & Black Women

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SisterLove founder Dazon Diallo spoke before the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Washington DC March 25, 2011 on why HIV/AIDS is a reproductive rights issue for black women.

27 August 2009

Hub one of six sites in black male HIV study

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By Talia Whyte

Bay State Banner

African Americans continue to be hit the hardest by the AIDS epidemic nationwide. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, blacks account for almost half of all Americans living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and they make up nearly half of new infections every year. Roughly one in 16 black men and one in 30 black women will be infected at some point in their lives.

However, health advocates are growing increasingly concerned about one specific high-risk group that research has shown to be most severely impacted by HIV — black men who have sex with men, or MSM. (The term “MSM” is used to broadly identify men who consider themselves gay or bisexual, as well as those who do sleep with men but don’t identify themselves as either, according to researchers.)

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