Archive for February, 2012

Free Hiv Testing On National Black Hiv/aids Awareness Day

Monday, February 6th, 2012
The Prince George’s County Health Department in collaboration with the Prince George’s Community College, the University of Maryland, Bowie State University, and community based organizations Heart to Hand, Inc., and SISTAS United will sponsor a variety of events to commemorate National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), Tuesday, February 7, 2012. NBHAAD is a community mobilization initiative designed to encourage Blacks acro

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Envision Prince George’s Partners With Community To Commemorate “fortune’s Bones”

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Envision Prince George’s has partnered with the University of Maryland, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and several other local organizations to capture this riveting story of Fortune's Bones. Fortune was an enslaved African whose life did not end when he died in 1798. In life, Fortune served a doctor in post-Colonial Waterbury, Connecticut. After death, he was dissected by the Connecticut physician who owned him. His bones were pr

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