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        KIDNEY  HEALTH  AND

            DIALYSIS  OPTIONS 

Rev. Homer C. Cobb Jr. hosted a call-in program to educate the community on various questions that African American are more prone to having end stage renal disease because of the stress we’re under and our diets. We are faced with high blood press and or diabetes, which are the two leading causes for kidney disease.

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   Rev. Homer C. Cobb Jr., Hammond Branch  NAACP President, was the Host: 

   Rev. Dena Holland Neal an ordained minister with United Church and Christ & Associated Pastor. Believes in holistic approach to ministry that address the entire needs of the person both physical and spiritual has been a dialysis patient since 1983, has done every modality offered to people with end stage rental dialysis.  She has done in-center nocturnal perinatal home, has had two Kidney transplants, and has provided counseling for new patients and patients considering transplants.

   Dr. Sandra Gadson,  a practicing Nephrologist and the International President of Woman’s Home and Overseas Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Dr. Gadson has served as past president of the National Medical Association, She has worked at all levels to eliminate healthcare disparities and to increase parity in medicine, especially in the area of kidney disease.  She founded the first freestanding dialysis center in Northwest Indiana.  She was the first provider of dialysis services in the city of Gary. In 1994, Dr. Gadson became the President of the Methodist Hospital Staff becoming the first woman to have been elected to that position.  In 2006, Ebony magazine named her one of the 100 most influential African Americans in America.  She has degrees from Hampton University and Meharry Medical College.  She has articles published in the American Journal of  Nephrology and other medical publications.  She is a member of the American Nephrology Society, National Kidney Foundation, Alpha Kappa Aloha Sorority , Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and a life Member of the NAACP.  096

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                            Passage prompted by NAACP, IUPUI partnership

As of July 1, all Indiana high schools will be required to offer ethnic and racial studies as an elective course at least once every school year under Senate Enrolled Act 337. Act 337, a bill authored by Sen. Greg Taylor, D-Indianapolis, was signed into law last week by Gov. Eric Holcomb during a private signing ceremony.  

Chrystal Ratcliffe, NAACP’s Indianapolis chapter president, said the initial focus was on Black history, but the group expanded its approach. 

“It started with the idea of requiring teaching of African-American history in Indiana schools and became a multi-cultural education requirement with the support of IUPUI professors and a diverse coalition,” said Ratcliffe. “We are grateful to Senator Taylor for his persistence and leadership on this issue.”