Nationwide — Thomas A. Farrington, the President and Founding father of Prostate Health Education Network (PHEN), whose mission is to eradicate the African American Prostate Most cancers disparity, is holding a DMV (Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia) Prostate Most cancers Group Rally throughout 4 Saturdays in June 2025, throughout Males’s Well being Month. PHEN will host these occasions with Howard College Most cancers Middle and 4 longstanding DMV Church companions – Reid Temple AME Church, Ebenezer A.M.E. Church, Judah Temple A.M.E. Zion Church, and First Baptist Church of Highland Park. Every occasion will supply free early detection PSA blood screening exams and prostate most cancers schooling.
Black males in Washington, D.C., are 3 times extra prone to die from prostate most cancers than white males, in response to DC Well being, and Maryland’s prostate most cancers incidence price ranks fourth nationally. “Prostate most cancers is a serious disaster in Black America. We’re holding these occasions, not only for males to come back and study their PSA numbers; we’re internet hosting them to assist save their lives,” mentioned Farrington, PHEN’s president, who can also be a 25-year prostate most cancers survivor. “These statistics are mind-blowing, and our aim is to sound the alarm and mobilize neighborhood actions to deal with this disaster.”
PHEN’s 4 free DMV Prostate Most cancers Group Rally screening and academic occasions will happen on the following church buildings:
• Saturday, June 7, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to three:00 p.m., at Reid Temple A.M.E. Church (11400 Glenn Dale Blvd, Glenn Dale, MD 20769), Reverend Dr. Mark E. Whitlock, Jr., Pastor. This Rally occasion will probably be hosted with the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Pi Upsilon Lambda Chapter, and the Reid Temple Males’s Ministry.
• Saturday, June 14, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at Ebenezer A.M.E. Church (7707 Allentown Rd, Fort Washington, MD 20744), Reverend Dr. Grainger Browning, Jr, Pastor. The theme for this occasion is “Brothers, Be Watchful: Defending the Temple, Preserving the Legacy,” in collaboration with Ebenezer’s Well being and Males’s Ministry. PHEN and the AME Church denomination signed a partnership settlement in 2023, underneath which a whole bunch of AME church buildings now accomplice with PHEN in communities nationwide.
• Saturday, June 21, 2025, from 11:00 a.m. to three:00 p.m., at Judah Temple A.M.E. Zion Church (14500 Mount Oak Street, Mitchellville, MD), Reverend Scot C. Moore, Pastor. Earlier this yr, PHEN and the A.M.E. Zion Church denomination signed an settlement, permitting A.M.E. Zion congregations and communities worldwide to learn from the tutorial and consciousness alternatives provided by PHEN. This occasion helps kick off that settlement and will probably be hosted by Rev. Scot C. Moore, Govt Director of Males of Zion, and Dr. Iyabode Beysolow, Director of Well being Ministry, The A.M.E. Zion Church.
• Saturday, June 28, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., on the First Baptist Church of Highland Park (6801 Sheriff Street, Hyattsville, MD 20785), Reverend Dr. Henry P. Davis III, Pastor. PHEN hosted its 2019 award-winning stage play, “Daddy’s Boys,” at First Baptist Church and can once more staff up for a full-day prostate most cancers instructional city corridor and screening occasion, overlaying Early Detection Screening, Understanding Remedy Choices, Growing Medical Trial Participation, and a Group Discussion board Path Ahead Roundtable.
Howard College’s Males Take Ten Cell unit will even be on-site, providing free PSA blood screenings to males. “Howard College has a partnership that spans 20 years with PHEN and has collaborated on prostate most cancers screenings, instructional outreach, and their annual Summit within the Washington D.C. space,” mentioned Dr. Leslie Deane, Professor & Chief, Division of Urology, Division of Surgical procedure. “We’re honored to assist lead the screening parts of those main rally occasions, to finish the Black prostate most cancers disparity right here within the DMV.”
The DMV Group Rally will even incorporate paid radio and social media promotions for prostate most cancers consciousness all through June, using the voices of native leaders. It’s anticipated to achieve 1 million individuals.
In 2021, PHEN first launched the Prostate Most cancers Group Rally program. Since then, it has reached over 23 million individuals throughout 15 states by radio-based consciousness messages, social media promotional supplies, hybrid City Corridor conferences, and community-based prostate most cancers consciousness occasions. Discover out extra at www.rapcancer.org
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