By Asha Davis 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 renowned TV…
U.S. Surgeon General and Dr. Jerome Adams poses with former UHMP student Karla Lozano, left, and her sister, Elizabeth Lozano who now attends George Washington University on a full scholarship. UHMP students interview psychotherapist Dr. Roblyn Lewter about mental health stigma and domestic violence. Former UHMP student Riley Johnson and her mother are shown at…
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…
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…
Dr. Michael Ehmann (left) with Larry Cohen, the founder of the Prevention Institute. First came the liquor store and then the fried fish and chicken carry-out. “Where’s the check cashing place?” I half-joked to the teenagers of the Urban Health Media Project in the back seats. “Or the church and the laundromat,” Reggie Payne…
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…
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…
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 my parents,…
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 turned into…
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. Growing up around people who have a poor understanding of how to handle money makes it hard for young people to…
By Sierra Lewter 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 next door raped…
