“Where were [her parents] when this girl was seen wandering at all hours with no supervision and pretending to be much older?” —Kisha Williams, Cleveland, Texas, resident, in “Girl’s Sex Assault Rocks Cleveland,” Houston Chronicle I’m pretty sure that when James C. McKinley, a reporter for the New York Times, filed “Vicious Assault Shakes Texas…

Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its annual report on sexually transmitted diseases in the United States. Although the data, which are for 2009, show some progress in lowering the rates of STDs, blacks are still bearing the brunt. African Americans accounted for approximately half of all chlamydia (48 percent) and…

Last week, more hoopla around unmarried black women dominated the media — again. The Associated Press reported that according to government statistics, in 2008 72 percent of African-American children were born to unwed black mothers. Even though the author, Jesse Washington, mentioned that racism, disproportionate poverty and high rates of incarceration factor into this statistic…

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks, you know who Antoine Dodson is. He became an overnight cyber star thanks to an interview he and his sister Kelly gave to an Alabama NBC news affiliate. With a red bandanna on his head, chomping on gum, Antoine, who is…

Researchers announced earlier this month that a new discovery may pave the way to developing a viable AIDS vaccine. Scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) discovered two potent human antibodies that can stop more than 90 percent of HIV strains from infecting human cells. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the NIH, told the…

Last Tuesday on The View, during a conversation about the Food and Drug Administration’s ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood, guest host D.L. Hughley attempted to school America on why HIV is so prevalent among African-American women. He said with confidence, “They are getting it from men who are on the down low.”…