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Item African Americans at Greater Risk for Stroke than Other Ethnic Groups(2004) Dawson, GeorgeAccording to the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association, African Americans are at greater risk of death from cardiovascular disease and stroke than any other ethnic group. Cardiovascular disease, including stroke, is the leading cause of death for African-American men and women—claiming the lives of over 100,000 annually. In 2000, cardiovascular disease accounted for 37% of all African-American deaths. It's estimated that 40% of African-American women and 41% of African- American men have cardiovascular disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the National Center for Health Statistics. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in America today and a leading cause of severe long-term disability. The American Stroke Association is reminding African Americans this May—American Stroke Month—to learn their risk for stroke and take action to lower their risk.Item AIDS Conspiracy Alive and Well in the Black Community(2005) Dawson, GeorgeAs the old saying goes, “Because you may, paranoidly, feel someone is after you? does not necessarily mean some one is not.” And this is apparently the feeling of a group of randomly sampled 500 African Americans, who participated in a phone survey on the subject. Remarkably, researchers somehow suggested that because of this notion of conspiracy by African Americans, some have become fatalistic in their approach to HIV/AIDS prevention measures. Therefore, they argue accounts for the high number or percentage of new HIV/AIDS infections in the United States. This reasoning, in my mind, does not make sense at all. The author’s own data noted that “75% of respondents believed that the government and healthagencies were working to stop the spread of AIDS in the black community.”