MOVEMENT ON MENTHOL & WHAT'S NEXT
FDA wants to hear from you. Let them know you support a ban on menthol and all flavored tobacco by July 5th.
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Funded Partners
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Invested in Community Capacity Building
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African Americans Championed
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Years of Service
About The Center
for Black & Equity
We are a national nonprofit organization that facilitates public health programs and services that benefit communities and people of African descent.
WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES
At The Center for Black Health & Equity, we understand that the first step to mobilizing health organizations and communities is to become aware of the root causes of health disparities among African Americans. This means abolishing the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS, increasing health and food literacy, fighting the tobacco industry's unethical marketing tactics, and reversing the impact that institutional racism has had on African American health.
OUR IMPACT,
Their Stories
Our funded community partners are the driving force behind our impact. Get to know how their efforts are moving us closer to health justice every day.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Get In The Ring. No Menthol Sunday 2022 is May 15. Save the date and download the toolkit now!
NEWS FEATURES
MAY 5, 2022
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: BIG TOBACCO'S EXPLOITATION OF GEORGE FLOYD AND ERIC GARNER IS NEXT-LEVEL EVIL
Only a truly bleak satirist could dream up a scheme as cynical as the tobacco industry hiring Black civil-rights advocates to help sell products that kill Black people...
April 28, 2022
IN A MILESTONE, FDA PROPOSES BAN ON MENTHOL CIGARETTES, FLAVORED CIGARS
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday proposed banning menthol cigarettes, a significant step praised by leading health and civil rights groups ....