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 chat slowly...
Category: UHMP 2018
Erasing the stigma: How shame about mental health has affected African-American families for generations
October, 2018 Sidney Davis did not want to be known as that kid. The one with the mental illness. Davis has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but she didn’t want people to know. So she hid it. Growing up, her parents didn’t talk about things like that. So neither did she. “It’s hard to talk to...
Cycle of Poverty Hard to Break Across Generations of Families
Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, is shown being interviewed by UHMP intern and New York University freshman Sierra Lewter. (Photos: By Antonio Hardy)After growing up in foster care, Chanel Feyh, 41, had built an amazing life in New York City. An apartment and her own business. Then she got...
Housing discrimination timeline
June 13, 1933 Home Owners’ Loan Corporation was established. Banks would determine a neighborhood's risk for loan default and redline neighborhoods that were at high risk of default. These neighborhoods tended to be African American neighborhoods, whereas the white-middle-class Americans were able to receive housing loans. Over decades, as the white middle-class Americans left...
After lapse in recovery, Ruth Pointer is “all excited” about living a healthy life again
Despite having top-20 hits from 1973 all the way to 2017 and being ranked in Billboard magazine's most successful 100 artists, the most important thing for Ruth Pointer of the Pointer Sisters today is health and living her best life. Pointer, 73, is now the only original group member still performing with the group. Sister...
Photo Gallery
YMG staff and students at events with various members of the health community Setja Johnson, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn and Heaven Pete Skye-Ali Johnson and Benjamin Miller, PsyD., chief strategy officer of the Well Being Trust, at a Kennedy Forum event on Feb. 6. Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., with Skye-Ali Johnson at a Kennedy Forum...
Sneakerheads Beware: Your Money, Your Life
Lou Gold, Store owner. In 1985, NBA rookie superstar Michael Jordan played in his prototype shoe for his first sneaker, the Air Jordan 1’s. The shoes violated NBA dress code, and were effectively banned. It was the best thing to happen to the sneaker business. Jordan’s refusal to remove the shoes earned him a...
IMessage Saviors
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...
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...