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Who Teaches Black Millennials How to Network Effectively?
I was not prepared to be mentally manipulated by the job searching process. I graduated from my Master’s program during a global pandemic with record high unemployment rates. As a Black millennial, I immediately understood that the job searching process would be difficult, but I did not expect it to be brutal. When the process began […] 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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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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So, What’s The Antidote To This Racial Battle Fatigue We’re Feeling?
I believe that focusing on habit making can help to overcome racial battle fatigue. Let me explain. Very early in the pandemic, quarantine trapped me in a vicious cycle of repetitiveness. This cycle was not grounded in any type of positivity or productivity. I was stuck in a state of ugh. A state of ugh […] More
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What’s Love Got To Do With Black Millennials?
Black millennials are a precarious group of individuals. We printed out MapQuest directions, had to type the 4 and 6 key on a phone five times to spell “going” when we texted our friends (on a Razr if we were lucky), and now we’re shouldering more loan debt than any generation before us. The unique […] More
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The Black Millennial’s Guide to Telemedicine Visits
So, we are officially a year into this pandemic (Panera Bread, panorama, panzanella…whatever alternative name you have for this little pandemic that we are going through)…but, the point is that we are more than 365 days into what some of us (me!) thought was going to be all wrapped up by September 2020. So, the […] 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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What Now Means: To Be A Black Millennial in a Global Pandemic
It feels as though our lives were like a game of musical chairs. Wherever you were when the pandemic turned the music off, you had to figure out how to settle into that space, even if there was not a chair for you. For me, the music was turned off as I was in a […] More
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Self-Help Books Are Missing The Mark With Black Millennials
I have an unexplainable love for self-help books. I’m unsure if it’s because of the excitement of following an author through their most difficult point in their life or how eloquently they seem to make hardship sound. Regardless, I would rather pick up a self-help book than any fictional book to relax. Authors who venture […] More
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We Need To Talk About Colon Cancer
Like many others in our community, I am mourning the death of Chadwick Boseman. It’s a very strange feeling to mourn the death of someone who you did not know but feel like could have easily been an older cousin, an uncle, or a brother to you in another lifetime. His tragic death from colon […] More
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Three Easy Ways for Black Millennials to Prevent High Blood Pressure
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Why Black Men Need to Speak Up About Their Health
Wadnes Castelly is making big waves within the media industry as a Client Solutions Partner at Spotify. We met and bonded over repping Haiti big during our internship program… (shout out to the T. Howard Foundation!) We met up on a very chilly winter day in midtown Manhattan. Wadnes was kind enough to travel from […] More














