Breast Cancer Awareness
Host Kali Alexander
Producers Jewel Love and Kali Alexander
email: kalialexander@gmail.com


October marks Breast Cancer awareness month and this afternoon we'll be speaking with USC professor and breast surgeon Dr. Dennis Holmes about Inflammatory Breast Cancer, a particularly devastating from of the disease, and we'll also chat with Jan Robinson Flint of Black Women for Wellness about the work they're doing on the ground to bring awareness around breast health in their Keep-In-Touch program.

Have you ever considered what it means to bring green-environmental consciousness to the hood? Well, I'll be speaking with Sun-Young of the Bus Riders' Union and Jewel Love of the Green African about the intersection of health, organizing, and cleaning up the environment. They'll also drop the 411 on why we should even care about global warming in the 1st place.


Segment 1:
411 on Breast Cancer Screenings and Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Guest USC Breast Surgeon and Breast Cancer Researcher Dr. Dennis Holmes
www.drholmes.com

As we know, October, marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is in fact the 2nd leading cause of cancer deaths among African American women. Black women are diagnosed less frequently than White women but Black women die from this disease at a higher rate. To help put things into perspective, I'm joined by Dr. Dennis Holmes who is a board certified surgeon and breast cancer researcher. Currently, Dr. Holmes is the Director of Intraoperative Radiotherapy and the Chief Breast Surgeon for the USC Kenneth Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Los Angeles County Medical Center.



Segment 2
Breast Health Awareness in South Los Angeles
Guest Jan Robinson Flint
www.bwwla.com

As we continue our discussion about breast cancer, we'll turn our attention to on the ground community efforts in place to bring awareness to the disease and offer prevention and detection strategies. To that end, Black Women for Wellness offers the Keep in Touch Breast and Cervical Health Education Program in South Los Angeles as a tool of community empowerment to eliminate health disparity around breast and cervical cancers. Keep In Touch is designed to address, discuss, and problem-solve issues around potential barriers to seeking screenings, early detection and interventions. Right now I'm joined in-studio by Jan Robinson Flint of Black Women for Wellness, here to give us the facts that we need to know to be healthy and thrive.

Free Keep In Touch Workshoips

The Keep In Touch Breast Health workshop will be held on:

Saturday, October 17, 2009
10:00 am until 12:00 noon
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
4182 S. Western Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90062
Barbara Bullens is the facilitator.
Please rsvp to her number which is 213- 382-8147

The second location is within a business park, however the venue is a church.
October 17, 2009
10:00 am until 11:30
CAM Center Ministries
22121 1/2 S. Vermont Ave
Torrance, CA 90501
Shirley Gamble is the facilitator, however please rsvp to Erica Byron at 310-408-5460




Segment 3
The Green Movement, Health, Activism, and Adovocacy
Guests Sun Young Yang
And Jewel Love

sun Young Yang is the Clean Air Clean Buses campaign Organizer for The Strategy Center. Since 2002 she’s been fighting to reduce the amount of pollution caused by cars in Los Angeles. Sun Young will help us explore and learn about how the fight for clean air affects all of our lives.

Jewel Love is the Editor of the forthcoming Black health and wellness magazine The Green African. Jewel will draw the connections between alternative health, environmental health, and our own wellbeing.

Contact: Sun Young Yang www.thestrategycenter.org
Jewel Love www.coyoga.com 310.674.5380