Grounding Ourselves for Black History Month

We are Blackity Black Black all year long, but it is expressed even more so during Black History Month. Your social media feeds are probably flooding with quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which is great, but February gives us a chance to honor and discuss all aspects of Black history.

Right now you can download our new resource, ‘Health Justice in Tobacco Control’. This training guide takes you on a journey to understand how the commercial tobacco industry has had a grip on Black health and wellness. Briefly put, tobacco was a slave crop that was later laced with menthol flavoring and heavily marketed to African Americans. Legislation from then and until now has helped to reverse some of the damage this industry has done, yet there is still work to do – as you will read in the guide.

Sterling Fulton is the Director of Evaluations for The Center for Black Health & Equity. She’s a co-writer for ‘Health Justice in Tobacco Control’ alongside Dr.Robert Robinson. He is the former Associate Director for Health Equity, Office on Smoking and Health for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Listen to Sterling give a preview of the training guide in this episode. She and Natasha Phelps, who has also completed extensive work in the world of tobacco control, explain how a community approach can help make tobacco policy changes.

Read the guide, here. Send your feedback to [e-mail]

CREDITS:
Host: Natasha Phelps
Producer: Chelsey Sellars
Logo Designer: Ashlee Woods