According to Braxton, Black women are four times more likely to develop complications from SLE and are at a greater risk of dying from the disease.

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Spelman alumna Dr. LaMonica Davis Taylor has launched a mobile dentist facility to serve underprivileged youth in Mississippi.

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Dr. KMarie King will become the first Black woman to sit at the helm of a surgery division at an Academic Health Sciences Center in the United States.

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Dr. Margaret Towolawi is the woman behind the first Black-owned direct primary care clinic in the state of Washington.

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Rapper Rick Ross has teamed up with JetDoc for the creation of an initiative that will provide free doctor visits for Georgia residents.

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Dr. Venaya Jones recently opened the first veterinary clinic in Cleveland to be owned and operated by a Black woman.

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What's more, Morton will begin his residency at the same hospital where he was saved.

Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s database. Cases involving African Americans also tend to receive less media coverage than missing Whites, with missing men of color getting even less attention. NewsOne has partnered with the […]