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When I was 14 years old, I watched my father pass away from stomach cancer at the age of 39. That began a series of losses of male relatives and friends at relatively young ages – 20s through 50s – that have left me almost obsessed with the idea of men’s health and men’s mortality, especially African American men. That’s because of the tragic loss of brothers who were making and poised to make significant contributions to their families and communities - voids that in some cases could have been prevented. That led me to issue a strong message to all men, but especially African American men, in observance of Men’s Health Month.

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In recent decades, men have shown poorer health outcomes across all racial and ethnic groups as well as socioeconomic status, according to the Men’s Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association.  But this is particularly true for African American men. Educating men and boys, their families, and health care providers about the importance of early detection of male health issues - including cardiovascular, mental, prostate heath, and cancer (lung, prostate, skin, colorectal, testicular, and more), HIV/AIDS, osteoporosis - can result in reducing rates of mortality for male-specific diseases, as well as improve the health of America’s men and its overall economic well-being. The premature death and disability of men and boys is a serious and expanding public health issue

June is Men’s Health Month, and on the current edition of Insight, Bhakti Larry Hough interviews Dr. William Hughes, a semi-retired urologist living in the Conway area of South Carolina, about the status of men’s health in general, and African American men's health, in particular.

Insight airs Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 a.m., 7 p.m. and midnight.

 

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The chief mission of the SC Arts Commission is to support artists and to insure the availability of the arts in various ways to all South Carolinians, regardless of where they live or their socieconomic status, according to Ken May, the commission's executive director. Host Bhakti Larry Hough interviews May about the commission and the arts in South Carolina on the current edition of Insight.

Insight airs Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 a.m., 7 p.m. and midnight.

 

 

 

 

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Insight #64 This edition of Insight is about the Five Years Too Many campaign featured in our previous post of yesterday. Host, Bhakti Larry Hough, interviews Anthony Vance, Director of the US Baha'i Office of Public Affairs, and  Iraj Kamalabadi, the brother of one of the ad hoc leaders that are in prison in Iran. The program also includes excerpts from the Five Years Too Many event held May 6th in Washington DC: Rainn Wilson, actor (Dwight Schrute, from the TV program, The Office) and Roxana Saberi, journalist and author, who was imprisoned in the same cell as the two female members of the Yaran. This edition is longer than normal due to the nature of the topic. A higher quality version of the program, can be downloaded here, but its 56MB. To listen to the program, simply click on the link at the top of the article, or the higher quality version, or right click on the links and download the files.

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When one thinks of cities and states that played pivotal roles in the development of jazz, one is likely to think of New Orleans, La; St. Louis, Mo.; and Chicago, Il., not Charleston, SC. But through Charleston's history with the Jenkins Orphanage band, from which several nationally renowned jazz artists such as Freddie Green and Jabbo Smith emerged, and the state being the home of jazz icon Dizzy Gillespie, Charleston and South Carolina have a vital place in the history and development of jazz. Today, Charleston boasts arguably the most vibrant jazz scene of any city in the state. That's in large part due to the Charleston Jazz Initiative (CJI), a multi-year research project that documents the African American jazz tradition in Charleston, the South Carolina Lowcountry, and its diasporic movement throughout the United States and Europe between the late 19th century through today.

On the current edition of Insight, Bhakti Larry Hough interviews Dr. Karen Chandler, co-principal of CJI and an arts management professor at the College of Charleston.

For more information on CJI and the Jenkins Orphanage band, visit:

http://www.charlestonjazz.net/index.php

http://www.jenkinsinstitute.org/

Insight airs Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 am, 7 pm and midnight.

 

 

 

 

 

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