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African Americans: Men
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If you are one of the 18.4 million African Americans with employer-sponsored coverage, this plan will provide you with more security, and allow you to pay less and receive higher quality coverage. You will no longer have to worry about losing your coverage if you change jobs, and you will not be denied coverage based on a pre-existing or genetic condition. Insurance companies will have to renew each plan at an affordable price. Coverage will ... be portable for those who change jobs, but want to maintain the same plan through the new menu of health choices.
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Researchers conducted pre- and post-campaign phone interviews with African-American females 15 to 19 years old in 125 households. The pre- and post-interview samples were selected independently to better gauge the effect of the campaign on the level of awareness within the community. Responses to the interviews suggest the campaign was successful at reaching its target audience. In the post-campaign survey, 72 percent of respondents reported seeing the campaign. Recognition of specific STDs mentioned in the campaign rose dramatically. Before the campaign, 28 percent of respondents spontaneously mentioned chlamydia when asked to name an STD, and 43 percent mentioned gonorrhea.
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African-American laborers worked on many WPA sponsored civic improvement projects in New Orleans during the 1930s and 1940s. The men photographed here are part of the demolition crew that tore down the old Charity Hospital in 1936.
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During the period 1960-1962, 42% of African American women were overweight, compared with 22% of African American men. (1) By 1998, 64% of African American women were overweight and 32% were characterized as obese. (1)
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The Bank of America Atlanta Football Classic is one of the largest African-American sporting events in the country, and one of the largest recurring sports events in Georgia. Presented by 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc., the Bank of America Atlanta Football Classic has generated more than $115 million to the state's economy over the past five years. Proceeds from the game benefit Tennessee State University, in Nashville, TN., Florida A&M University, in Tallahassee, FL., and Project Success, an education and mentoring program founded by 100 Black Men of Atlanta.
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The Tuskegee experiment, which took place from the 1930s to the early 1970s, left nearly 400 African-American men untreated during the late stages of syphilis in order to collect medical data from their autopsies. Conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service, the experiment is one of the most infamous examples of the abuse of human research subjects. President Clinton issued a formal apology for the experiment in 1997.
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