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‘Enough is enough — I am going to die’

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Therapy Thursday panelists talk about the multiple obstacles victims face to leave an abusive relationship By Yesenia Barrios  From the outside, it looked like Roblyn Lewter had a good marriage with a wonderful man. But for years, what no one knew was that she endured violence by his hands, fearing for her life.  Finally, she...

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Surviving Trauma: Intergenerational Violence Affects Many in Black Community

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BY AJMAANIE ANDRE URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI – Charlene Bouie felt different from other children from an early age. It was decades, though, before she fully understood why: She’d been sexually abused, multiple times, by the time she was a young teenager. Then as an adult, she was physically and verbally abused by her...

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Surviving Trauma: Separating Siblings in Foster Care Can Be Cruel

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BY IJEOMA OKERE URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT WASHINGTON, D.C. — Growing up in the city’s foster care system, Lisa Cohen bounced between 13 different families over 19 years. Now 52 and a former boxing champion and motivational speaker in northwest Washington, D.C., Cohen never had a birthday party as a child, and has almost no...

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Surviving Trauma: Domestic Abuse, Dulos Killing Motivate Mothers’ Political Activism

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BY GILLIAN LAMPHERE and SAMANTHA ROSENGARD URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT GREENWICH, CONN. – It was only in looking back that the southern Connecticut mother of two saw all the red flags in her marriage: her husband criticized her looks, their childrens’ looks, how she cleaned the house, even her cooking. He’d stand over her, watching...

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