Breastfeeding

A Maryland couple has accused police officers of tampering with evidence of their alleged unlawful arrest last year. Juley Harris (popularly known as local artist…

In an effort to encourage to low-income Detroit, Mich.,  mothers to breastfeed, an Oregon company has teamed with the Clinton Global Initiative to buy their…

With all the talk about obesity and chronic disease in the African-American community, the surgeon general is out to educate Moms about an early preventive…

DETROIT — Afrykayn Moon was kicked off a SMART bus for breastfeeding her son, after the driver demanded that she cover up or get off. Moon refused and continued to breastfeed. According to Michigan state law, Moon did have the right to continue breastfeeding under public-indecency laws. Moon and a group of women will stage […]

First Lady Michelle Obama recently asked women to breast-feed more as she did with her children as part of her “Let’s Move” campaign. She believes there are health benefits with breast-feeding your children. Only 55 percent of Black women breastfeed their children. Whites and Latinos are both higher than 75 percent. The topic has always […]

WASHINGTON D.C.-As part of her campaign for better health, First Lady, Michelle Obama has been promoting breastfeeding. Politics Daily Reports: Looking ahead to what she will do in the second year of “Let’s Move,” Mrs. Obama said: “We also want to focus on the important touch points in a child’s life. And what we’re learning […]