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Surviving Trauma: She Walks In Her Truth: Washington Woman Works to Help Other LGBTQ+ People of Color

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BY VANESSA FALCON URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT WASHINGTON, D.C. — Heidi Ellis, 36, was taught to love reading, to love her culture, and to love herself. Ellis, who identifies as lesbian and came out at the age of 19, knows she was lucky — lucky to be loved for who she is. Still, as a...

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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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Baltimore program seeks to interrupt violence

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By: Marquart Doty and Berri Wilmore June, 2017   “We have to provide a safe place, where someone can feel comfortable enough to have a long conversation about their issues, in order to hear their own answers…” -Dedra Layne, Director, Safe Streets Baltimore   We are constantly told that violence among youth in our urban...

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