We finally are starting to scratch the surface of the depth of the HIV crisis among young black men who have sex with men (MSM). Late last summer the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the most recent HIV incidence numbers, indicating that young, black MSM were the...
(5) Comments | Posted March 5, 2012 | 7:57 PM
If we've learned nothing else over the past month, we've learned that we as black Americans need to have an open and honest dialogue around the meaning of "manhood." At the beginning of February, Deoni Jones, a 23-year-old African-American transgender woman, was stabbed to death at a Washington,...
(9) Comments | Posted November 29, 2011 | 2:47 PM
The most recent statistics indicate that an entire generation is being impacted by HIV on an epic scale. HIV cases among young, black, gay and bisexual men increased by an estimated 48 percent between 2006 and 2009, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
(4) Comments | Posted April 27, 2012 | 2:54 PM