November, 2018, Four African American teenaged girls started a group-chat that was originally intended to be about gossip and interesting situations they’d come across in their communities. However, it wound up leaving a more serious mark on each of its members. As the members became more open to each other, the group...
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Being Poor Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Learn How to Handle Money
Allen Cheaves, CEO of Extra Credit Financial Solutions, a financial planning company in Washington, D.C., is shown being interviewed by (left to right) UHMP student Janiya Battle, intern Sierra Lewter and student Isabel Fajardo. September, 2018 Growing up around people who have a poor understanding of how to handle money makes it hard for young people...
Abuse: No One Talked About It
By Sierra Lewter October, 2017 Editor’s note: This is the personal story of one young African American woman’s rape as a child. Her name is being withheld to protect her privacy. “Margaret” grew up on a farm in rural Georgia with her mother and grandmother. At the age of six, the 60-year-old white man...
Future of Football and Concussion
By: Louis Steptoe October, 2017 Football is one of the most beloved Sports in the United States. For sixty minutes fans watch some of the fastest, strongest and smartest athletes battle it out for glory. Football is one of those sports were the training starts at a young age. From elementary school to college, kids...
How Social Media Affects Teen Health
By Asha Davis and Erin Burnett November, 2017 Even though we see teenagers on social media looking fine, posting their everyday activities and having fun in what seem like near-perfect lives, looks can be deceiving and social media can have negative effects on their health. The hours spent on Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram and other...
For Many Teens Life’s Tough Choices Begin With Bad Food
By Dominiquie Waters (Baltimore) and Joshua Mitchell (D.C.) Myra Jackson refuses to eat lunch in D.C.’s H.D. Woodson High School cafeteria because, she said, she just can’t stomach hamburgers or grilled sandwiches topped with “fake cheese.” The people who prepare and serve food to students “are not doing their job. Most students just go to...
Consumers’ guide to who might be treating you in hospital
By Asha Davis September, 2017 Whenever you are admitted to a hospital, you typically think you are always going to be seen by a doctor. Yet, there are many different levels of medical people present in a hospital. A prime example of these different medical physicians practicing in a hospital is displayed in Shonda Rhime's...
Living a full life with chronic conditions
By Berri Wilmore, Jayne O’Donnell and Louis Steptoe September, 2017 Robin Gladden has looked death in the face. It wasn’t due to her being raised by abusive, drug-addicted parents in a trauma-plagued community. Instead, she says it was because of mistakes and neglect by the health care system. Gladden, 62, is a thyroid...
Art helped heal teacher and now his students
By Janiya Battle and Ashanea Parker September 2017 Carmen Garner turns to art to cope with his traumatic past and show kids going through similar situations how to cope positively through art and art therapy. “As a child, I thought things were normal (when) I’d come home and see my mom shooting heroin, (and)...
HeLa cells give life to mankind, heartburn to Lacks family
By Asha Davis May, 2017 BALTIMORE – African -Americans have had a complicated relationship with the health care system for years, going back at least to the distrust and fear caused by dangerous “studies” performed on African-Americans without their permission. In the most infamous of such studies, from 1932 to 1972, African-American men suffering...