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Perceptions of racism -- from being treated with suspicion in a store to unfairness in employment or housing -- can heighten stress levels and affect health, research has shown. A new study from Boston University links these smoldering signs of racism to weight gain in black women, suggesting a possible explanation for the their higher obesity rates compared to white women. Yvette Cozier, an epidemiologist at the Slone Epidemiology Center at BU, led a survey of more than 43,000 women enrolled in the long-running Black Women's Health Study. Writing in the June issue of Annals of Epidemiology, she and her...

7 pounds star Rosario Dawson embellishes the cover and more of The NY Times T Style Spring 2009 issue. The soulfully scintillating Dawson was captured by photographer Solve Sundsbo and looks sinfully delicious, sexier than life, in an amazing shoot, that emphasizes her beauty and star quality.

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Clinton works to sway black women Appearance with Angelou underscores key role of gender DAVID INGRAM WINSTON-SALEM -- (snip) On Friday, the New York senator held a forum at Wake Forest University with Maya Angelou, one of the nation's most prominent poets -- and also a black woman. "Hillary Clinton is a woman who takes responsibility for the time she takes up and the space she occupies," Angelou said, reading from a piece of prose she wrote in Clinton's honor. "She has been there, done that, seen that and has still risen," Angelou said. Black women who vote Democratic face...

It would not be inaccurate to term surgical induced abortion as 'Surgical Thalidomide' -- BRENT ROONEY .......... Thousands of Black U.S. Women 'Guinea Pigs' for Experimental Surgery 'Surgical Thalidomide' by Brent Rooney, Gabrielle Whiting 'Suction' abortion (VAA, Vacuum Aspiration Abortion) performed on Black American women and Hispanic-American is EXPERIMENTAL UNPROVEN surgery, since there are zero published animal studies demonstrating safety from risks of future premature births, mammary ('breast') cancer, etc. On 16 January 2008 Dr. Sharon Camp, President of the research arm of Planned Parenthood (AGI, Alan Guttmacher Institute) admitted in an e-mail to me that AGI could find no...

One of the intriguing stories of Campaign '08 is the popularity of Hillary Clinton with black women who might be expected to support Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the first African-American to emerge as a serious contender for a major party presidential nomination. A series of CBS News polls show the New York senator has a 15-point lead over Obama among black women. Other polls have confirmed Clinton’s popularity with African-American women. Overwhelmingly, the most frequently stated reasons women give for favoring Hillary Clinton are that they have positive feelings about her husband and his administration and they think she's got...

My wife is black. I am not. Therefore our children are mixed. Now my youngest daughter is often said to look Spanish, with long wavy, dark hair. My oldest daughter however is often said to look Italian, or even Greek, with a darker complexion than my youngest girl and with hair, which is not kinky, but very tightly curled. About once a month or so my oldest daughter, now that she is a “pre-teen” (whatever that means, when I was a kid you had baby, kid, teen, then adult- now you have about twenty categories of kidhood even though nobody...

Health officials have worried for years about the high rate of HIV among African Americans. Now the federal Centers for Disease Control is examining how one group, known as men on the "down low," could be spreading the disease among black women.

Dr. Gail Wyatt has a message for black women: We need to change our views and actions regarding sexuality. Or die. Nearly three-quarters of America's new cases of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are African-American women. Black women between 25 and 44 are 13 times more likely to die of the disease than white women of the same age. It is one of the most underreported news stories of this new decade, and sadly, more women will die before we pay attention. Black women and their sexuality are the focus of Wyatt's research since she conducted the first study...

A former Muslim woman who now heads an evangelical ministry says she understands why an alarming number of Hispanics are embracing Islam. The Tampa Tribune newspaper recently told the story of a young Latino woman who, at age 14, affirmed the shahâdah -- the Islamic creed or declaration of faith one recites in order to profess faith in Islam. An earnest recitation of the shahâdah once, in Arabic, before two Islamic witnesses is all that is required initially for a person to become a Muslim convert. W.L. Cati, president of Zennah Ministries http://www.zennahministries.com/, is a former Muslim woman who says...

BRAINS NOT BRAUN By Robert Wolf This may begin a series of articles on the alternatives to George Bush in the 2004 election. I say may, because it could become a repetitious to do them all. They are very much alike, as Republicans are very much alike, at least in what they say. The information will be culled mostly their platform statements on their web pages. I am using the candidate list on the MoveOn.org site which is why Ms. Moseley Braun is first up. In a letter to MoveOn members from Carol Moseley Braun highlights her resume as follows:...