BY ANURA SHARMA URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI — Caio Lopes was a high school student in 2005 in Palm Beach County when Hurricane Wilma hammered South Florida on October 24. The Category 3 storm packed winds of 120 miles per hour when it made landfall in Cape Romano, about 113 miles from Lopes’s...
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Surviving Trauma: Even Years Later, Trauma from Parkland Shooting Translates to Action
BY MICHELLE MAIRENA URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT Twitter: @michemairena MIAMI — It was Logan Rubenstein’s first week of freshman year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. During math class, there was a fire alarm. None of his classmates moved from their seats. Then a student started to cry. It was only...
Surviving Trauma: Miami Resident Leans on Faith to Cope With Multiple COVID-19 Deaths
BY DANIEL GONZALEZ III URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI — Over just a few months during the pandemic, Elbert Waters, 66, of Miami Lakes, lost five loved ones to COVID-19. First it was his cousin, a man in his early 70’s who fell ill at the height of the hospitalizations in New York City...
Surviving Trauma: Students Shine Light on Bigotry in Their High School
BY ALLEGRA COLEMAN URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT CHICAGO — Their stories were graphic, and numerous. “I’ve had my butt grabbed, like a full palm… which I’ve witnessed happen to a lot of female students.” “I’ve had people do racist Chinese accents at me while saying racist things. They asked me to do their math...
Surviving Trauma: Trans Sex Worker Advocate Supports Others Facing Trauma
Chose sex trade to support child as she transitioned from being a male teen BY DIONNA DUNCAN URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT WASHINGTON, D.C.– At 15, Tamika Spellman got a girl pregnant. Born a boy in Buffalo, N.Y., she’d had a pretty “typical childhood” growing up with her parents, she said. But it was around...
Surviving Trauma: Trauma of Past Lives and Hunger Can Follow Immigrants to U.S.
BY FABIHA FARUQUE URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI — As a child growing up in Cuba, Anthony Vidal vividly recalls what it was like to go without enough to eat. They rarely had meat, so his family would substitute eggplant in recipes to mimic the texture and flavor. Often, there was little or nothing...
Surviving Trauma: ‘You Do the Right Thing No Matter What’: Coping With COVID-19
BY KHIMMOY HUDSON URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI — For Basil Binns II, 38, the trauma of COVID-19 struck early. His 70-year-old mother who has a history of bronchitis was among the first to fall ill with the virus in his community after attending a ski vacation with friends in February. She was hospitalized...
Surviving Trauma: South Philly Man Copes With Past Trauma By Helping Others
BY KAYLA JOHNSON URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT PHILADELPHIA — Before he was out of his teens, Waltkeem Jenkins had been jumped and shot at and was diagnosed with depression. At the age of 19, Jenkins, now 23, missed a bus he usually took to get home after performing music at an open mic night...