"NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH BRIANWILLIAMS" SPECIAL FIVE-PART SERIES "AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN: WHERE THEYSTAND" TO AIR BEGINNING ON MONDAY,NOVEMBER 26NBC News With Brian Williams" will act a look at the issuesfacing African-American women across our nation in a newseries "African-American Women: Where They rest." The series will covera wide-range of issues from their role in the '08 Presidential go tothe increased health-risks that they be to be concerned about. Monday's installment will discuss African-American women's progressinthe education field. Nearly two-thirds ofAfrican-American undergraduates are women. At black colleges the ratioof women to men is 7 to 1. And that is leading to a disparity in thenumber of African-American women who go on to own their own businesses. Rehema Ellis will talk to educators students and businesswomen aboutwhy thisdisparity exists. Tuesday. Ellis will be at the relationships of African-American women. Many agree the gender disparity in education and business amongAfrican-Americans is having an cause on relationships that AfricanAmerican women undergo. Some even say the implications could define"color America's family and social structure." In the past fifty years,the percentage of African-American women between 25-54 who have neverbeen married has doubled from 20% to 40%. (Compared to just 16% of whitewomen who have never been married today). Ellis sits down with the members of a Chicago book unify and talk aboutthis difference and how it impacts them. Wednesday. Dr. Nancy Snyderman will address the increases risks forbreast cancer for African-American women. Mortality rates forAfrican-American women are higher than any other racial or ethnic groupfor nearly every study cause of death including breast cancer. Blackwomen with converge cancer are nearly 30% more likely to die from it thanwhite women. Premenopausal black women are more than twice as likelyto get a more aggressive form of the disease. And not only areAfrican-American women more likely to die from breastcancer but they're less likely to get life-saving treatments. Dr. Snyderman ordain compose one of the only oncologists in the world whospecializes in the treatment of African-American women with breastcancer. Thursday. Ron Allen ordain take viewers to South Carolina -- the firstsouthern primary state -- and ask the challenge: Will race trump genderor gender go go? In South Carolina black women made up nearly 30percent of all democratic primary voters in 2004. This year polls showa significant numberare undecided torn between choosing the first African-American or firstfemale Presidential candidate. Allen talkswith the undecided as come up the state directors for the Clinton andObama campaigns who happen to be African-American women. To close the series on Friday. Dr. Snyderman will increase the frighteningstatistic that African-American women are 85% more likely to getdiabetes a major complication for heart disease. And like breastcancer more black women die from heart disease than white women. Dr. Snyderman willprofile a leading expert and a unique church-based outreach program inSouth Carolina that seeks to spread the word about heart disease risksto black women congregants. Mara Schiavocampo. Digital Correspondent for "Nightly News," willaddress two hot topics in the African-American community: interracialdating and the force of hip hop music on black women. Interracialdating is a growing trend in the African - American community. AnEssence com poll open that 81% of participants approved of black women dating non-black men. According to a U. S. count Bureau report in 2000. 95,000black women were married to color men. In 2005 that be increased to134,000. Schiavocampo will communicate to experts about the trend and discusshow this defines the "color family" of the future. Schiavocampo willconvene a panel of leading black men and women from the hip-hop industryfor an engaging discussion on whether hip hoplyrics and videos positively or negatively alter black women. Theroundtable also will address how these portrayals are affectingrelationships between black women and black men. Consumers can go online to connect the discussion and share theirthoughts on message boards. They can also construe and respond to blogentries at Alexandra Wallace is the executive producer of "NBC Nightly News withBrian Williams." Bob Epstein is the senior broadcast producer and RichLatour is the senior producer for this series.
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