Second-deadliest cancer among U.S. men takes center stage at NCRM event
Clarence Williamson, right, speaks during a panel discussion on prostate cancer in Black men at the National Civil Rights Museum Sept. 16. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Black men are 70% more likely to develop cancer of the prostate and twice as likely to die from it compared to their white counterparts.
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prostate cancer National Civil Rights Museum health disparitiesAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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