It was a family dinner in Detroit when I realized my family didn’t talk about health. My uncle was babbling out loud but no one seemed to pay attention. When I asked why, my aunt nonchalantly mentioned, “He’s sick, he has breast cancer.” I’m a breast cancer advocate. Why didn’t my family reach out to me for advice and support? Dinner went on, we passed around the potato salad. A month later my uncle was dead. The Importance Of Healthy Literacy