Women will have a chance to get clinical breast exams and other checkups at the symposium, which also will feature healthy lifestyle workshops, panel discussions, cooking demonstrations and a variety of health screenings, such as blood pressure checks and vision tests.

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BET Foundation officials believe if anyone has the power to help family members get healthier, it’s the woman in the house.

That’s why the organization is bringing the BET Foundation Women’s Health Symposium, Remembering Our Health, to Detroit for the first time Saturday.

“Our women’s health symposium was designed to educate African-American women on how to better care for themselves because we’ve realized when it comes to health disparities, the leading person that can influence health disparities is the African-American female,” says Debra Kilpatrick, director of women’s health programs for the Washington, D.C.-based BET Foundation Inc.

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