The lack of appropriate role models on television has always been
worrisome to leaders in the African American community. However, a new
animated children’s series that features a six-year-old Black girl named Doc McStuffins who aspires to become a doctor one day
like her mother is providing inspiration to young Black
women.
High blood pressure may be deadlier for Blacks. Blacks with hypertension
are twice as likely as their white counterparts to suffer sudden
cardiac death, according to a recently released study.
