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in TipsThree Black Millennial Doctors To Watch
It’s June, y’all! Can you believe it? We are officially halfway through 2021. But, honestly, it feels like the year is just starting since outside seems to finally be opening up. As someone who had to have a Zoom graduation last year, I cannot tell you how happy I was to see the graduation season […] More
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Why Doulas Are The Future of Black Millennial Birthing
SeQuoia Kemp is Syracuse’s most illustrious doula. She is a nurse by trade who has been standing up for Black maternal health since she was a teenager. SeQuoia recently presented at Upstate Medical University’s Health Justice Conference and was an instant hit. Since we are still in the times of COVID-19, SeQuoia was kind enough […] More
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Let’s Talk About Black Grief
By the time my dad had turned 50 years old, he’d already survived two heart attacks. He died at the age of 52 after suffering complications from pulmonary hypertension. I was 22 years old and on my way to social work school in New York. My journey with grief didn’t begin with my dad’s passing, […] More
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How Black Millennials Are Reimagining The Health Of Their Communities
This interview was recorded in November 2018. Bianca Duah is Staten Island’s finest. Point Blank Period. Hailing from Park Hill, Staten Island (Wu-Tang Clan stand up!), Bianca was one of the first people I met during admitted students day at Brown University. We bonded over our love for being Black girls who love a good […] More
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Five Things Health-Conscious Black Millennials Should Ask Themselves By 25
On May 16, 2019, I turned 25 years old (where are all my stubborn Tauruses at?!) and I started to realize that this aging thing is and never was a game. Like the infamous Dr. Tykeia Robinson, Ph.D. of Gettin’ Grown podcast once said: “adulthood is the worst hood I’ve ever been to.” I suppose […] More
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A Black Millennial’s Mental Health Guide to Social Distancing
Uncle Andrew Cuomo got on the TV the other day and told me that I might have to stay in the house for nine months because of the Coronavirus. Coronavirus. COVID-19. The Rona. Miss Rona. This virus goes by many names but she sure is turning the world upside down and inside out. So, let’s […] More
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Five Health Insurance Terms To Know To Get That Mental Health Together
If you didn’t know, May is Mental Health Awareness Month. As we are finally (possibly?) emerging from the depths of the pandemic, we all know that this past year and a half has forced us to get right with our mental health one way or another. In my kind of world, mental health resources would […] More
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President Biden Can’t Forget About Black Millennials
During the disrespectfully long Election Week (no shade to the Election Day workers…y’all did your thing), I went through a large range of emotions. I was excited, apathetic, nervous, exasperated, and fed up. Between the pandemic, social justice uprising, and the general trials and tribulations of being a student, I was just about done. After […] More
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