African-Americans frequently look towards race and economic factors as our biggest challenges, but there are self-inflicted problems that are literally killing us. The recent and untimely deaths of Heavy D and Patrice O’Neal has made the health issues that arise from being overweight very hard to ignore. According to HuffPost, obesity is a “full-blown crisis […]
Stand-up comedian Patrice O’Neal died at the age of 41 following a stroke last month. “It is with terrible sadness we must report that Patrice O’Neal has passed away this morning. Many of us have lost a close and loved friend; all of us have lost a true comic genius,” said his agent Matt Frost. […]
