The 2024 Denton Black Film Festival officially kicks off Wednesday. Every year, Denton residents are treated with a festival celebrating Black culture and art, and this is the festival s 10th
Derell Nichols has been Jordan’s big play receiver all season, but in Week 6 last Friday he took things to another level. Bailey has recorded 40 digs this season and is a standout in the classroom as well with a 3.992 GPA.
Dr. John Fonge, left, and Dr. Kelvin Wynn.
Racial disparity remains a problem in the health care field, with fewer Black men applying to, and enrolling in, medical school today than in the 1970s.
“When you look in terms of the of the of the number of the physicians in this country, only 2% are Black men. So that’s appalling,” said Dr. Kelvin Wynn, a practicing family medicine specialist with UnityPoint Healthcare. “Then when you look at medical school enrollment, back in 1978-79, the enrollment was actually about 3.1%, and actually in 2019-2020 it was lower at 2.9%.”
Dr. John Fonge, a practicing pediatrician with OSF Health Care, believes attracting more Black men into medical careers is critical to the community’s well-being.