Welcome to The Cookout

For hundreds of years, Black communities have relied on our own resourcefulness and wisdom to confront cancer when it hits home. Yet, according to the American Cancer Society, "For most types of cancer, Black people have the highest death rate and shortest survival of any racial/ethnic group in the United States." There has to be a way to better serve our community--and it starts by understanding our cancer journeys through medical, legal and social systems.

Cancer Legal Care has joined forces with LaShaune P. Johnson, PhD (a three time cancer survivor and professional troublemaker) to better understand Black family breast cancer journeys. In our ongoing efforts to support more inclusive practices in our work, we are starting a series of exploratory conversations about the relationship that medical legal partnerships such as CLC have in the lived experiences of Black families and communities. 

We look forward to sharing the expertise and ideas from the conversations later this year along with the changes CLC will make in response to them.

Together, we will light the path to a better way.