Colorectal Cancer Equity Foundation

Everyone deserves to feel seen. Everyone deserves to feel valued. Everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive.

This Pride Month, we celebrate the diversity, strength, and resilience of LGBTQ+ individuals, families, and communities.

At the Colorectal Cancer Equity Foundation, our mission is rooted in a simple belief: health equity means everyone.

Colorectal cancer does not discriminate.

Access to prevention, screening, education, and care should not either.

Today, we celebrate love, authenticity, and the right of every person to be treated with dignity and respect.

Your health matters.
Your story matters.
Your life matters.

🌈 Every body. Every butt. Everyone. 💙

Today is National Cancer Survivors Day.

Across the country, people are celebrating birthdays they were not sure they would see, milestones they fought hard to reach, and moments that once felt uncertain.

Today, we celebrate every survivor.

At the same time, we know this day can bring mixed emotions.

Many survivors are thinking about friends, family members, and fellow patients who are no longer here.

Some are carrying survivor's guilt.
Some are still healing.
Some are simply grateful for another day.

Whatever today feels like for you, please know there is room for all of it.

At the Colorectal Cancer Equity Foundation, we remain committed to helping more people become survivors through prevention, screening, early detection, and equitable access to care.

Today we celebrate those who are here.
We honor those we have lost.
And we continue working toward a future where more families get the gift of time together.

To every survivor:
Thank you for inspiring us.
Thank you for sharing your story.
Thank you for showing us what hope looks like.

We're glad you're here. 💙

Every week, another family learns the words:
“Stage 4.”

Then comes the sentence no family should have to hear:
“We wish we had caught it sooner.”

Colorectal cancer is rising among younger adults, yet too many people are still being told:
“You’re too young.”
“It’s probably stress.”
“It’s hemorrhoids.”

Months pass.
Sometimes years.

By the time answers finally come, families are left grieving people who should still be here.

At the Colorectal Cancer Equity Foundation, this is why we continue showing up in communities with education, trusted conversations, and screening resources that help people take action before it is too late.

This work is not about awareness alone.

It is about giving more people the chance to survive.
More families the chance to keep their loved ones.
More dinner tables without empty chairs.

Every conversation matters.
Every screening matters.
Every life matters. 💙

Black communities do not need more awareness alone.

We need action.
We need access.
We need trust.
We need systems built to actually reach people before prevention becomes crisis care.

After three days of collaboration in Houston and weeks of continued work with 75 health leaders from across the country, the Council on Black Health has officially released its 2026–2028 Collective Action Plan. We are proud that our Founder & President, Dr. Charles R. Rogers, helped contribute to this important national effort.

What makes this plan powerful is that it moves beyond conversation. It outlines real strategies focused on healthcare access, community partnerships, mobile outreach, patient navigation, food access, workforce development, and culturally responsive care.

This connects to the mission of the Colorectal Cancer Equity Foundation because far too many Black families are still experiencing preventable loss from late diagnoses and barriers to screening.

We believe health equity must be something people can actually feel in their everyday lives.

Fewer barriers.
More trust.
Earlier detection.
More lives saved.

We’ve got work to do.
Let’s do it together.

Learn more:
councilbh.org/2026-2028-Collective-Action-Plan

Big progress like this happens when people refuse to stop pushing for change.💪

We are grateful to Fight Colorectal Cancer for leading this important effort alongside nearly 150 organizations, advocates, and experts to secure a new ICD-10 code for Lynch syndrome. This step forward will help improve research, understanding, and care for families impacted by hereditary cancer risk.

Proud to stand with partners working to create a future where more lives are protected through earlier detection, better data, and stronger systems of care. 💙

On this Mother’s Day, we hold space for every kind of mother.

The mothers celebrating today surrounded by love and family.

The mothers we miss and wish we could hug one more time.

The women still hoping and praying to become mothers.

The mothers carrying the pain of losing a child.

Today can bring smiles, tears, gratitude, and grief all at once.

At the Colorectal Cancer Equity Foundation Foundation, we have seen how much strength mothers carry through illness, caregiving, advocacy, and loss. So many continue showing up for others even while carrying heavy burdens of their own.

To every mother and every heart carrying the love of a mother:
Thank you.

We honor your strength, your sacrifice, and your love today and always.

Happy Mother’s Day. 💙

Colorectal cancer is not catching us off guard. We are catching it too late.

Younger adults are being diagnosed at later stages, and Black men continue to face the highest burden. These patterns are not new.

We have had the data, the screening tools, and the opportunity to act earlier. What we have not done is build systems that make early action normal, accessible, and trusted.

We keep asking why people do not get screened. A better question is whether we have made prevention easy to act on, trusted enough to believe in, and visible before symptoms force the issue.

Prevention does not fail in the exam room. It fails in silence, in delay, and in systems that expect people to navigate complexity on their own.

Early detection saves lives, but only if systems are built to help people act before it is too late.

Grateful to Out for elevating this conversation on the last day of National Minority Health Month.

https://rollingout.com/2026/04/30/dr-charles-r-rogers-colorectal-cancer/

Would value your thoughts on how we move from awareness to action.

We are not losing people because we lack awareness. We are losing people because prevention is not working the way we think it is.

A feature is not impact. A headline is not change. Visibility is not access.

I was recently featured by AfroTech, and this conversation is one we need to keep pushing forward: https://afrotech.com/dr-charles-r-rogers-discusses-colorectal-cancer

Colorectal cancer is rising among younger adults, and Black communities continue to face later diagnoses and higher burden. None of this is new.

We have the data. We have the screening tools. We know early detection saves lives. Yet people are still being diagnosed too late.

So the question is not why people are not getting screened. The question is whether we have made prevention easy to act on, trusted enough to believe in, and visible before symptoms force the issue.

Prevention requires more than information. It requires access, trust, and systems that reduce friction rather than add to it.

People act on what they trust and what fits within their daily lives.

Prevention does not fail in the clinic. It fails before it—in silence, in delay, and in systems that expect people to figure it out on their own.

Awareness starts the conversation. Ex*****on determines the outcome.

If we want different outcomes, the system has to change.

Grateful to Afrotech & Samantha Dorisca for elevating this conversation.

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Thank you to our Yellow Jessamine Sponsors! Because of you, this year the Consortium will be an experience bringing us together to continue our collective impact on the fight against colorectal cancer.

We are thankful to be a first-time sponsor of the 10th Annual Southeastern Colorectal Cancer Consortium Conference in Charleston, South Carolina this week.

This conference brings together people focused on prevention, early detection, and saving lives. That is at the heart of our mission.

As a team based in Atlanta, we are proud to stand with others across the Southeast working to make a difference.

This year, we also remember Seth Tabor, who passed away in March. He spoke at last year’s conference and was a strong advocate for others.

Seth helped start , a movement that encouraged people to talk openly about gut health and the rise of colorectal cancer in younger people. He believed that honest conversations, even uncomfortable ones, could lead to earlier screening and saved lives.

Seth, your voice still matters. We will keep fighting.

Thank you to everyone who continues to support this work and believes in a future where fewer families face this disease.