Article: Stigmas and fear of loss of sex life blamed for high Black death rate.(prostate cancer)

For Black men, who already feel imperiled, there is yet another sobering wake-up call -- prostate cancel: "More Black men get the disease, and more Black men die from the disease," warns Harry Belafonte, the celebrated singer and entertainer; who went public last year on national television. Before Belafonte learned he had prostate cancer, he recalls, "Somehow I felt quite omnipotent. Just untouchable. And then when my doctors told me I had it, it gave me a huge pause to focus in on what that really meant."

Sidney Poitier, world-renowned actor; Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C., and former civil rights activist Kwame Toure (a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael) are ...