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...
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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...
Latinx Health Care: Lost in Translation
By Lizeth Vela and Samantha Rosengard, Urban Health Media Project “Cuídate, cuídate, por favor, abuelita; yo puedo ayudarle,” Alicia Cole told the elderly woman in the hospital bed next to her. “Be careful, please, grandma; I can help you.” Cole was in a California hospital recovering from surgical complications and the woman sharing her room,...
New Fund Launched to Improve Mental Health Services for Adolescents of Color and LGBTQ+
By Madeleine Voth, Urban Health Media Project participant and a student at Duke Ellington School of the Arts “What happens when reality is so painful, that hiding away is the only option?” asked Amora Campbell, 16, of Washington, D.C. Campbell, a senior at Richard Wright Public Charter School for Journalism and Media Arts, spoke at...
Events
Youth Pride Day at Dupont UndergroundIn collaboration with the Washington Blade, YMG hosted Youth Pride day on 18 June 2021 to celebrate Pride and the release of the Blade's Youth Pride issue! The event showcased the UHMP's LGBTQ+ youth multimedia work and performance with song and spoken word. Read the stories published in the Washington...
Diverse perspectives on patient safety
December 2019 Sierra Lewter is a UHMP Alum and intern. She is currently a junior at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
The stigma of seeking mental healthcare hurts traumatized teens
When trauma in the black community is discussed, and its causes and possible cures are talked about in public, a key topic is often left out. That would be mental health issues, the kind that are often caused or made worse by issues including physical and emotional trauma fatherlessness and sexual assault. What health care...
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 chat slowly...
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...