Nationwide — Jasmine Dionne Souers, Editor of Extra Life Journal and President and CEO of The Lacking Pink Breast Most cancers Alliance, is proud to announce the discharge of its 2025 Black Breast Well being Challenge, a pioneering collaboration with Black-led grassroots organizations and advocates throughout the U.S. This particular version serves as a curated useful resource, addressing numerous points of breast well being and wellness inside Black communities.
Empowering Communities Via Collaboration
Breast most cancers has a devastating influence on Black communities. In keeping with the American Most cancers Society, whereas breast most cancers incidence charges amongst Black and white girls are related, Black girls have a roughly 40 % increased demise fee from breast most cancers. Moreover, Black males have a 52% increased breast most cancers incidence fee than white males.
“The wants are nice, the gaps are huge and collaboration is vital to extra life past breast most cancers,” mentioned Jasmine. “There was a lot I didn’t know after I was identified at 26. I needed to work laborious to seek out assist and advocate for myself. The 2025 Black Breast Well being problem is a solution to that frustration, bringing leaders collectively to make a higher influence than what they might do alone.”
Recognizing that neighborhood insiders greatest perceive native wants, Extra Life Journal partnered with organizations in cities the place Black girls face excessive breast most cancers mortality charges:
• Have fun Life Ministry, Los Angeles, CA• Pink Legacy 50/50, Houston, TX• Painted Pink, Atlanta, GA• Sista’s Daughters, Philadelphia, PA
Along with Black breast most cancers advocates from the broader neighborhood, every group contributed articles based mostly on their space of experience. By combining a wide range of sources and experiences into one shared useful resource, contributors increase entry to essential data inside their yard and past.
“Collaborative work prevents the inefficiencies of siloed efforts and permits us to pool data and methods to higher serve these affected by breast most cancers,” mentioned Ann-Marie Swatson, CEO and President of Painted Pink, a nonprofit devoted to educating each millennial on breast well being. “This second is a reminder to everybody that our efforts are a part of a broader motion to make sure that no lady faces her breast most cancers journey alone.”
The 2025 Black Breast Well being Challenge contains subjects resembling self-advocacy, male breast most cancers, whole-person therapeutic, caring for caregivers, and extra. Different notable options and contributors embrace Travis Douglas, a male breast most cancers survivor and advocate for The Male World Breast Most cancers Alliance; Deltra James, a poet and passionate voice for metastatic breast most cancers consciousness; Thandi Montgomery, a breast most cancers survivor and advocate for holistic well being; and Valencia Robinson, a metastatic breast most cancers advocate and champion for digital rights by means of The Mild Collective.
Help from Devoted Sponsors
This initiative is made doable by means of the beneficiant assist of Genentech and The Therapeutic Works Basis, organizations dedicated to advancing well being fairness and offering important sources to these in want.
About Extra Life Journal
Introduced by The Lacking Pink Breast Most cancers Alliance, Extra Life Journal is devoted to delivering curated guides for higher breast well being and wellness for all. Via collaboration and innovation, the journal strives to empower people and underresourced communities with the data and sources essential to navigate breast well being challenges successfully.
For extra details about the 2025 Black Breast Well being Challenge, go to themorelifemag.com
For press inquiries, ship an e mail to jasmines@themissingpink.org
