News 2011
We’re Nowhere Near the Mountaintop King Described Before His Death
Martin Luther King’s final public remarks, delivered 43 years ago yesterday, are often called his darkest, because he appears to foreshadow his assassination the following day. He was in Memphis, Tenn., urging supporters of 1,300 striking sanitation workers to double-down at a critical juncture in what had been a troubled movement—a previous demonstration had turned violent, embarrassing King, and he was preparing a new march in defiance of court orders. He closes the speech by musing at length on the death threats he’d received.
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In Loving Memory of Dame Elizabeth Taylor
(February 27, 1932–March 23, 2011)
March 23, 2011— "I will not be silenced and I will not give up and I will not be ignored." With these words, Elizabeth Taylor lent her voice to the voiceless, her iconic image to those who had previously been invisible, and her compassion and determination to a cause many others had shunned: the fight against HIV/AIDS. Her willingness to speak out against apathy and silence in the early, frightening days of the epidemic and her instinctive sympathy for those in need earned her a place as one of the most influential advocates for people living with HIV in the U.S. and around the world.
Georgia Department of Community Health and the Black AIDS Institute Bring "Greater Than AIDS" HBCU Testing Tour to Georgia
HIV Testing Tour will visit five Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Media Contact: Mondella Jones
213-353-3610 ext. 107
The Georgia Department of Health and the Black AIDS Institute have partnered to present the Georgia>AIDS HBCU Testing Tour. The tour will kick-off on Monday, April 11, 2011 at Savannah State University in Savannah, Georgia. Free HIV Testing will be available throughout the tour which runs until April 15th and stops at historically black colleges and universities in Albany, Fort Valley, Augusta, and Atlanta, GA .The tour will feature appearances from Atlanta-based MC, host and human beat boxer D.R.E.S. the BEATnik and poet Chauncey Beaty who is featured in the Greater Than AIDS campaign. As part of the Greater Than AIDS campaign, a national media and mobilization initiative managed by the Black AIDS Institute and the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Georgia tour will call Black leaders to action and engage Black individuals and institutions in a community-wide effort to end the AIDS epidemic.
Remembering Our Brother, Dr. Mark Colomb
The world has lost a tireless champion in the war against HIV/AIDS and other health concerns in the Black community. On March 24, 2011, Mark Colomb, Ph.D., founder and CEO of My Brother’s Keeper, a national organization devoted to reducing health disparities in Black America, passed away at his home in Ridgeland, Mississippi. He was 45 years old.
Q&A: Rep. Maxine Waters, Legislator and Activist
One of the most prominent and effective African American members of Congress, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), has long been a fighter against the spread of HIV/AIDS in the African American community and a strong advocate for the rights and care of individuals with HIV/AIDS. Given the tremendous challenges facing our nation at a time of great possibility for people with HIV/AIDS, we asked Waters, former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, to share her perspectives.
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- The Health Debate Is Far From Over; Will Be Cornerstone Issue In 2012
- Institute of Medicine Releases Report on Health Care System Capacity for Increased HIV Testing and Provision of Care
- Black Treatment Advocacy Network (BTAN) HIV Education & Literacy (H.E.L.P.) Houston