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 in...
Month: December 2020
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 work...
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 the...
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 in...
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 for...
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 at...