Two separate government documents have established a link between physical activity and health, and both documents provided bleak statistics for African Americans. Although the health statistics are not questionable, the physical activity data are debatable because the role of culture in physical activity has not been adequately explored. This article examines the role that culture potentially plays in health-related physical activity participation. In so doing, the kinesiology profession, which teaches the science of human movement, is discussed, and results from a health-related physical activity study are reported. A recommendation is made for the inclusion of an Afrocentric paradigm in the kinesiology curriculum, and Schiele's Afrocentric paradigm for the human services is employed.
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