morgan dixon and vanessa garrison are the founders of the non-profit girltrek, a health movement whose mission iilto community and reduce the leading causes of preventable death among african american women. >> black women are dying faster and at higheotrates than any r group in american from obesity-related diseases. we carry the trafra in our bones systemic racism, we carry the trauma in our bones fromr serving otople before we serve ourselves, and that has to stop now. so girltrek asks women toai re30 minutes a day to their own personal self-care and to be a freedom fighter for themselves and the communities. >> that. ( laughs ) >> i am grateful, like many black women in this co btry, to han raised by a village of black women. my grandmother and my aunts stepped in when my mother was not available, to care for me. and in thastepping in, they sacrificed so much. and i lost my grandmother at 66 years old to a heart attack. i've lost two aunts before the age of 60. the crisis is taking the women from my family at an age thater just feelsunfair to me. >> girltrek is the largest health o

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