National Black Family Cancer Awareness

An Oncology Center of Excellence Project Community Initiative #BlackFamCan

Cancer Awareness Equals Empowerment

Thank you to all who participated in the 2024 National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week!

We encourage you and your families, advocacy organizations, cancer care colleagues and oncology institutions to begin planning for how you’ll participate in both the dedicated “Conversation on Cancer” public panel discussion, June 20, 2025, and the weeklong social media campaign, June 19-25, 2025, using #BlackFamCan.

Consider Coordinating activities and social media messaging around the following:

Thursday, June 19, 2025 — 5th Annual Juneteenth Federal Holiday
Friday, June 20, 2025 —5th Annual National Black Family Cancer Awareness, Conversation on Cancer public panel discussion, 11am-Noon ET via YouTube livestream
Saturday-Wednesday, June 21-25, 2025 —social media campaign! (Visit our toolkit for daily content ideas and a #BlackFamCan selfie frame).

Revisit this webpage for 2025 updates. Meanwhile, continue to share cancer awareness messaging using #BlackFamCan!

2025 #BlackFamCan Social Media Toolkit
Download and Share Social Media Graphics

Download 2025 Images Here

2024 #BlackFamCan Social Media Toolkit

NBFCAW Promo
Be first to promote NBFCAW with your friends, post #BlackFamCan on social media June 13-19, 2024. Run time: 12 seconds.

For HBCUs and Faith-based Orgs
Help raise awareness for those at greatest risk, National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week, June 13-19, 2024. Run time: 1:08

Answer the call
Making Clinical Trials Available, National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week June 13-19, 2024. Run time: 34 seconds.

Power of Community
There is still time to plan for National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week, #BlackFamCan June 13-19, 2024. Run time: 1:09.

Download and Share Social Media Graphics

Download 2024 Images Here

Additional Instructions: #BlackFamCan Social Media Toolkit

National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week graphics, YouTube videos and our customizable selfie frame are designed to help your community promote participation.

How to Use

Download, socialize and customize the content posted on this web page in ways that fit the needs of your channels, messaging, and audience.

Download: Treat these tools and copyright-free materials as your own, with this caveat—the FDA logo must not be re-purposed for use on other webpages or non-FDA materials. Please remember to use #BlackFamCan.
Socialize: #BlackFamCan materials are designed to be shared. Use your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or other social media account to help Project Community promote cancer awareness.
Customize: Add your organization’s logo and URL or pair these graphics with a social media message of your own.

Customizable Selfie Frame!

Download, save to your device, add your selfie and share to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn! Use the hashtag #BlackFamCan

How to superimpose (overlay) the selfie frame on your image:

Download and save the selfie frame.
Open a new project in the photo program or app as a square or set as equal dimensions. There are several free superimpose apps for iPhone and Android.
Upload the selfie frame.
Add your image and resize if necessary.
Add selfie frame over your image and resize if necessary.
Export or save project as a new image.
Upload and share on your social media channels!

Click here to watch an instructional video.

National Black Family Cancer Awareness Background

Project Community at the FDA Oncology Center of Excellence began its National Black Family Cancer Awareness initiative in 2021 coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the National Cancer Act and the signing of Presidential Executive Order 13985.

The initiative, now a year-round project, started as a week-long social media campaign to increase cancer awareness in one of the most vulnerable segments of the US population. The National Black Family Cancer Awareness initiative aims to marshal community-based stakeholders to build knowledge surrounding cancer clinical trial participation and minority population specimen donations to national genomic databases for cancer research.

Our 2023 activities began in January with stakeholder meetings and culminated in a one-week social media campaign, June 15-21. Thank you to the patients, families, communities, advocacy groups and organizations who participated in the 2023 National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week, #BlackFamCan, including Sonequa Martin-Green of Star Trek: Discovery and Chandra Wilson of Grey's Anatomy.

Sonequa Martin-Green joins Project Community

Chandra Wilson joins Project Community

Watch the June 15, 2023, recording of our public panel discussion supporting the 3rd Annual National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week, Conversation on Cancer: National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week—Engaging the Generations public panel discussion.

Please continue sharing your engagement all year long by posting any outcomes from your activities or personal messages, photos, and videos about the impact of National Black Family Cancer Awareness using the hashtag #BlackFamCan.