Taking time out for the same self-care I advocate.
As a journalist I specialize in African American health, wellness and parenting. Here is a cross-section of stories I've written.
Raising Empathetic Teens Amidst Growing Intolerance. For the Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
How Testing for the Coronavirus Became a Rorschach Test for Racism. The COVID Racial Data Tracker is really to track racism, not to track race. For Colorlines.
Self Love in the Time of Coronavirus. Nine ways you can take charge right now! For Colorlines.
Ring the Alarm. COVID-19 Presents Grave Danger to Communities of Color. How to protect yourself and the ones you love. For Colorlines.
10 Tips for Talking to Your Children About The Current Climate of Hatred and Violence. For the Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia about parenting young people during the rise of racism.
The Benefits of Playing Teen Sports. For the Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
The Do's and Don'ts of Talking to Kids of Color About White Supremacy. About parenting young people during the not-so-post-racial era. For the Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Fighting Fibroids. Uterine fibroids may affect 80 percent of us by age 50. To help sift through all the available treatments, we've broken down the options, from conventional to cutting-edge.
Saving our Daughters. There has long been a national conversation about the challenging plight of our sons, but their sisters are suffering, too. Protecting Black children isn't an either/or proposition; it's time to think about both boys and girls.
Who's Afraid of Black History? Written with my co-authors, Joe Brewster and Michele Stevenson.
Surviving the Health Insurance Crisis. An estimated 46 million Americans don't have health insurance, including 9 million African Americans.
Sexual Healing. He doesn't want to talk about it; you don't know how to deal with it. But if your man is struggling with sexual dysfunction, you can be key to his recovery.
Moving to Win the Fight against Fat. Click here and here to see pages 2 and 3 or view entire article below.
Getting Real: Black Women Taking Charge in the Fight Against HIV and AIDS. In 2005 the Black AIDS Institute hired me to write this groundbreaking monograph on African-American women and HIV/AIDS that helped Black sororities, social, civic and professional organizations, including the AKA's and Deltas, the Links, and the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, launch AIDS awareness and prevention efforts for their members. Click here to download that report.
Their Patients, Their People. More than half of all new HIVers are African American, but only a handful of top HIV docs are black. Now these MDs are uniting to stand up for their patients-and themselves
Standing in the Shadows of Love. At 17, Dominique is falling hard-and forgoing the condoms-for an older man with an unknown past. Tonya was that same age when she did just that-losing the man but getting HIV. Will the same happen to Dominique-and countless other black girls coming of age in the crosshairs of an urban epidemic?
