The Black AIDS Institute and Affiliates Team Up With Walgreens for National HIV Testing Day

Walgreens

In support of National HIV Testing Day (NHTD), June 27, the Black AIDS Institute and the Black Treatment Advocates Network (BTAN) once again have teamed up with Walgreens and Greater Than AIDS to provide free HIV testing at select Walgreens locations. The theme for National HIV Testing Day 2015 is "Take the Test. Take Control."

1 in 5 Younger Americans Tested for HIV: 22 percent for females and 16 percent for males, CDC says

Tested more than ever

Nearly one-fifth of teens and younger adults in the United States have been tested recently for HIV, federal health officials reported Tuesday.

In 2011, more than 1 million Americans 13 and older had HIV, but one in seven did not know their infection status. Routine, voluntary testing is known to reduce transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Many U.S. Men With Depression, Anxiety Don't Get Treated, CDC Finds

Depression

Young minority males less likely than whites to access mental health care

THURSDAY, June 11, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Close to one in 10 American men suffers from depression or anxiety, but fewer than half get treatment, a new survey reveals.

The nationwide poll of more than 21,000 men also found that among younger males, blacks and Hispanics are less likely than whites to report mental health symptoms. And when they do acknowledge psychiatric troubles, they are less likely to seek professional help than whites, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

Ella Taught Me: Shattering the Myth of the Leaderless Movement

Civil Rights leader Ella Baker

Who gets to tell the story? This is a question implicit in the work I do as a historian. But the question I have been wrestling with lately is more immediate: Who gets to shape the narrative, define the history-makers, and capture the words and images of the current black-led, anti-state violence movement evolving in the United States right now?

In This Issue

Republican Presidential contender Rick Perry thinks the mass murder of nine Black people in a Charleston South Carolina Church is an "accident". That shows you what he thinks about the lives of Black people. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham thinks the South Carolina mass murderer was "looking for Christians to kill." Really, is this a trend I've missed? Is there a storied tradition of burning down White churches, bombing them, lynching White men in front of them, or Black people going in to White churches, praying with them for an hour and then standing up and gunning them down?