February is Black History Month-Late Night Health’s Mark Alyn spoke with Donnell White recently about how this important month relates to breast cancer.

Part of Black history is that throughout the US African American women die from breast cancer at a rate 40 percent higher than other women. But in Los Angeles County, the statistics are 56 percent higher, and, in Long Beach, the mortality rate is 70 percent higher.

That’s why the Susan G. Komen® Circle of Promise California Initiative was created… to rewrite this history.