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Georgette Seabrooke, also known as Georgette Seabrooke Powell, (1916-2011) was an American muralist, artist, illustrator, art therapist, and community educator. She is best known for her mural Recreation in Harlem at Harlem Hospital, which she made while working for the WPA in 1936. A true lifelong learner, Seabrooke was educated at the Harlem Community Art Center, and studied at the Cooper Union, Fordham University, and Howard University, and many other institutions. For Further Reading: Georgette Seabrooke Powell At Harlem Hospital, Murals Get a New Life At the Feet of a Master: What Georgette Seabrooke Powell Taught Me About Art, Activism, and the Creative Sisterhood “Recreation in Harlem” This Black History Month, we’re talking about Renaissance Women. As part of the famed cultural and artistic Harlem Renaissance movement, these women found beauty in an often ugly world. History classes can get a bad rap, and sometimes for good reason. When we were students, we couldn’t help wondering... where were all the ladies at? Why were so many incredible stories missing from the typical curriculum? Enter, Womanica. On this Wonder Media Network podcast we explore the lives of inspiring women in history you may not know about, but definitely should. Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we’ll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know–but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Educators, Villains, Indigenous Storytellers, Activists, and many more. Womanica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures. Womanica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Grace Lynch, Maddy Foley, Brittany Martinez, Edie Allard, Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Taylor Williamson, Sara Schleede, Paloma Moreno Jimenez, Luci Jones, Abbey Delk, Adrien Behn, Alyia Yates, Vanessa Handy, Melia Agudelo, and Joia Putnoi. Special thanks to Shira Atkins. Original theme music composed by Miles Moran. Follow Wonder Media Network: Website Instagram Twitter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send us a textGot holidays? Then you need moxie to get through them. The expectations, the standards, and the idealized version of the season can wear us down. Not anymore! This episode of Main Street Moxie with Sara Cousins is here to help you celebrate the holidays in line with your values and priorities, leaving you saner and less depleted as you enter 2025. Sara shares strategies and techniques to help us hold space for ourselves while finding connection with others during this holiday season and throughout the year.Sara is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience in private practice in Lakeville, Connecticut. For a decade, she's been the go-to mental health professional for Main Street Magazine.Sara's diverse career journey has taken her from working with Inuit youth in Alaska to serving communities through the Susan B. Anthony Project in Torrington, Harlem Hospital in Manhattan, and Victim Services of NYC. Across all her roles, she has been inspired by the resilience and vulnerability of the people she has served.Specializing in relational and couples therapy, Sara has been trained by renowned experts, including Esther Perel, Tara Brach, Orna Guralnik, Terry Real, John Gottman, and Harville Hendrix. She is also deeply committed to mindfulness and meditation, drawing on over 20 years of training with Mingyur Rinpoche. She has attended workshops and trainings with Pema Chödrön, Jack Kornfield, and Tim Olmsted.Outside her professional life, Sara embraces new challenges and adventures. She recently joined the Norfolk Curling Club to try curling, a sport much more challenging and painful than it looks on TV!This episode of Main Street Moxie is proudly sponsored by Main Street Magazine.Support the show

On August 2, 1924, a baby boy was born at Harlem Hospital in New York City — one who would grow up to become one of the most celebrated writers and thinkers of the 20th century. James Baldwin's novels, essays and ideas were captivating and controversial. They challenged society's ideas of race, power, sexuality and belonging through politics that were rooted in his personal experiences as a Black, queer man in America, and later as an expatriate in other nations.In this episode, host Kai Wright reveals his own connection to the works of James Baldwin, and speaks with Razia Iqbal, a professor of journalism at Princeton University. Iqbal is also the host of the forthcoming podcast series “Notes on a Native Son,” which features interviews with modern-day writers and activists who have been inspired by Baldwin. The six-part series will be featured on Notes from America starting on September 7.Craving more James Baldwin? Check out these episodes from our sister shows at WNYC:Meshell Ndegeocello's Ode to James Baldwin on NYC Now100 Years of 100 Things on The Brian Lehrer Show Tell us what you think. We're @noteswithkai on Instagram and X (Twitter). Email us at notes@wnyc.org. Send us a voice message by recording yourself on your phone and emailing us, or record one here.Notes from America airs live on Sundays at 6 p.m. ET. The podcast episodes are lightly edited from our live broadcasts.

Jane Cooke Wright (also known as "Jane Jones") (November 20, 1919 – February 19, 2013) was a pioneering cancer researcher and surgeon noted for her contributions to chemotherapy. In particular, Wright is credited with developing the technique of using human tissue culture rather than laboratory mice to test the effects of potential drugs on cancer cells. She also pioneered the use of the drug methotrexate to treat breast cancer and skin cancer (mycosis fungoids). Wright's family had a strong history of academic achievement in medicine. She was born in Manhattan, New York, to Corinne Cooke, a public school teacher, and Louis T. Wright, who was one of the first African American graduates from Harvard Medical School. He was the first African American doctor at a public hospital in New York City.  As a child, Wright attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, then the "Ethical Culture" school and the "Fieldston School", from which she graduated in 1938. During her time at the Fieldston School, Wright was very involved in extracurricular activities. She served as the school's yearbook art editor and was named the captain of the swim team. Her favorite subjects to study were math and science. After attending the Fieldston School, Wright received a scholarship to Smith College, where she furthered her studies and continued to be very involved in extracurricular activities. She swam on the varsity swim team, discovered a passion for the German language, and lived in the school's German house for a while. Wright graduated with an art degree from Smith College in 1942.] After her time at Smith, Wright received another scholarship, to attend the New York Medical College. She graduated as a part of an accelerated three-year program at the top of her class in 1945 with the honors award. After medical school, Wright completed residencies at Bellevue Hospital (1945–46) and later at Harlem Hospital (1947–48), where she became the chief resident. In 1949 she joined her father in research at the Harlem Hospital Cancer Research Center, which he had founded, and she ultimately succeeded him as director when he died in 1952. In 1949, Dr. Wright joined her father at the Cancer Research Foundation at Harlem Hospital. During her time at the research institute, she and her father sparked an interest in chemotherapeutic agents. They were interested in making chemotherapy more accessible for everyone. In the 1940s chemotherapy was a new development, so it was not a well-known or well-practiced source for treatment because it was still in its experimental stage of drug development. Chemotherapy was considered the “last resort” and the drugs available and dosage was not very well defined. Both Jane and her father wanted to make chemotherapy a more accessible method of cancer treatment. They were the first groups to report the use of nitrogen mustard agents and folic acid antagonists as cancer treatments.  Wright retired in 1985 and was appointed emerita professor at New York Medical College in 1987. In describing her pioneering research in chemotherapy, she told reporter Fern Eckman, "There's lots of fun in exploring the unknown. There's no greater thrill than in having an experiment turn out in such a way that you make a positive contribution." --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/momentsofgrace/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/momentsofgrace/support

In this final episode, we turn to people living with HIV today — longtime survivors of a plague who, despite their pain, frustrations and desires to just be done with it, realize they can't be done with it. These are people like Kia LaBeija, an artist who has been HIV-positive since birth, who turned to photography at 16, shortly after her mother died, to help make sense of her story. And they are people like Phill Wilson, an activist who still bears the scars of his decades fighting in the HIV and AIDS trenches; Valerie Reyes-Jimenez, the proudly positive woman we met in the first episode, who talks about what it's like to age as a HIV-positive woman; Victor Reyes, one of the children who went through Harlem Hospital and lived long enough to grow up and start a family of his own; and Lizzette Rivera, who who lost her mother to AIDS in 1984 and spent decades trying to find her mother's burial spot so that she could properly mourn and honor her. Together, these five remind us that the HIV and AIDS epidemic is not over — and there is still so much we need to do to bring it out of the shadows.Voices in this episode include:• Kia LaBeija, a former mother of the House of LaBeija, is an image-maker and storyteller born and raised in Hell's Kitchen in the heart of New York City. Her performative self-portraits embody memory and dream-like imagery to narrate complex stories at the intersections of womanhood, sexuality and navigating the world as an Afro Filipina living with HIV.• Warren Benbow is a drummer who has worked with Nina Simone, James “Blood” Ulmer, Betty Carter and Whitney Houston, among others. He grew up in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and went to the High School of Performing Arts. Warren is Kia's father.• Phill Wilson is the founder of the Black AIDS Institute, AIDS policy director for the city of Los Angeles at the height of the epidemic, and a celebrated AIDS activist in both the LGBTQ+ and Black communities since the early 1980s.• Valerie Reyes-Jimenez is a HIV-positive woman, activist and organizer with Housing Works. She saw the AIDS crisis develop from a nameless monster into a pandemic from her home on New York City's Lower East Side.• Victor Reyes was born at Harlem Hospital Center and spent much of his childhood receiving treatment and care at the hospital's pediatric AIDS unit. He is the director of an after school program at a grade school in Washington, D.C. He also does research at the Global Community Health Lab at Howard University.• Lizzette Rivera is a data analyst who remains haunted by her mother's death in 1984. Rivera spent years trying to find the whereabouts of mother's burial site on Hart Island. She finally succeeded in 2020. She now visits her mother's grave regularly.Blindspot is a co-production of The HISTORY® Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with The Nation Magazine.A companion photography exhibit by Kia LaBeija featuring portraits from the series is on view through March 11 at The Greene Space at WNYC. The photography for Blindspot was supported by a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes coverage of social inequality and economic justice.

NYC Now presents a special episode from Season 3 of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows. Valerie Reyes-Jimenez called it “The Monster.” That's how some people described HIV and AIDS in the 1980s. Valerie thinks as many as 75 people from her block on New York City's Lower East Side died. They were succumbing to an illness that was not recognized as the same virus that was killing young, white, gay men just across town in the West Village.At the same time in Harlem, the 17th floor of the area's struggling public hospital was filling up with infants and children who arrived and then never left. Some spent their whole lives on the pediatric ward, celebrating birthdays, first steps and first words with the nurses and doctors who had become their surrogate family. Welcome to Harlem Hospital at the height of the HIV and AIDS epidemics.When the nurses and doctors at this community hospital first began to see infants suffering from an unusual wasting disease, they were alarmed. They had heard that a strange new illness was killing gay men, but no one was talking about women and children. Soon, however, it became clear that HIV was sweeping through Harlem, sickening mothers who then passed it — unknowingly — to their kids. As the crisis grew, AIDS turned the pediatrics ward of Harlem Hospital into a makeshift home — and a makeshift family — for kids who were either too sick to go home, or who no longer had families to go home to.You can listen to more episodes of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows here.Voices in the episode include:• Valerie Reyes-Jimenez is an HIV-positive woman, activist, and organizer with Housing Works. She saw the AIDS crisis develop from a nameless monster into a pandemic from her home on New York City's Lower East Side.• Dr. Margaret Heagarty was a doctor who ran the pediatric department at Harlem Hospital Center for nearly 20 years. She died in 2022. Archival interview with Margaret Heagarty comes from the Columbia Center for Oral History.• Dr. Stephen Nicholas was a pediatrician at Harlem Hospital Center for two decades.• Maxine Frere, a lifelong Harlem resident, is a retired nurse who spent the entirety of her 40-year career at Harlem Hospital Center.• Monica Digrado was a pediatric nurse at Harlem Hospital Center.• Victor Reyes was born at Harlem Hospital Center and spent much of his childhood receiving treatment and care at the hospital's pediatric AIDS unit.Blindspot is a co-production of The HISTORY® Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with The Nation Magazine.A companion photography exhibit by Kia LaBeija featuring portraits from the series is on view through March 11 at The Greene Space at WNYC. The photography for Blindspot was supported by a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes coverage of social inequality and economic justice.

Guest host Richard Kim, THE CITY's editor in chief, talks to journalists Kai Wright and Lizzy Wright about their Blindspot podcast digging into the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and focusing on overlooked populations including intravenous drug users, incarcerated people, and the pediatric patients separated from their families "who lived and died their entire lives on the ward of Harlem Hospital" — and the individuals and communities who stepped up and stepped in where institutions failed.

It's the 1980s — Harlem, USA — and the 17th floor of the area's struggling public hospital is filling up with infants and children who arrive and then never leave. Some spend their whole lives on the pediatric ward, celebrating birthdays, first steps and first words with the nurses and doctors who've become their surrogate family. Welcome to Harlem Hospital at the height of the HIV and AIDS epidemics. When the nurses and doctors at this community hospital first began to see infants suffering from an unusual wasting disease, they were alarmed. They had heard that a strange new illness was killing gay men, but no one was talking about women and children. Soon, however, it became clear that HIV was sweeping through Harlem, sickening mothers who then passed it — unknowingly — to their kids. As the crisis grew, AIDS turned the pediatrics ward of Harlem Hospital into a makeshift home — and a makeshift family — for kids who were either too sick to go home, or who no longer had families to go home to. Listen to more episodes and subscribe to Blindspot here. Voices in this episode include: Dr. Margaret Heagarty was a doctor who ran the pediatric department at Harlem Hospital Center for nearly 20 years. She died in 2022. Archival interview with Margaret Heagarty comes from the Columbia Center for Oral History. Dr. Stephen Nicholas was a pediatrician at Harlem Hospital Center for two decades. Maxine Frere, a lifelong Harlem resident, is a retired nurse who spent the entirety of her 40-year career at Harlem Hospital Center. Monica Digrado was a pediatric nurse at Harlem Hospital Center. Victor Reyes was born at Harlem Hospital Center and spent much of his childhood receiving treatment and care at the hospital's pediatric AIDS unit. Blindspot is a co-production of The HISTORY® Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with The Nation Magazine. A companion photography exhibit by Kia LaBeija featuring portraits from the series is on view through March 11 at The Greene Space at WNYC. The photography for Blindspot was supported by a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes coverage of social inequality and economic justice. Tell us what you think. Email us at notes@wnyc.org. Send us a voice message by recording yourself on your phone and emailing us, or record one here. We're also on Instagram and X (Twitter) @noteswithkai.

By 1986, almost 40 percent of people diagnosed with AIDS in the United States were either Black or Latino. As the full contours of the crisis became apparent, a group of Black gay men began to organize in cities across the country, demanding attention and support for the people dying in their midst. This effort required them to confront big, important institutions in both the medical establishment and the government — and it meant they had to stare down racism in the broader LGBTQ+ community. But perhaps their most pressing and consequential challenge was the most difficult to name: the rejection of their own community.As men, women and children within the Black community began falling ill, essential institutions — the family, the church, civil rights groups — which had long stood powerfully against the most brutal injustices, remained silent or, worse, turned away. Why? What made so many shrink back at such a powerful moment of need? And what would it take to get them to step up?In this episode, we meet some of the people who pushed their families, ministers and politicians to reckon with the crisis in their midst. We hear the words of a writer and poet, still echoing powerfully through the decades, demanding that he and his dying friends be both seen and heard; and we spend time with a woman who picked up their call, ultimately founding one of the country's first AIDS ministries. And we meet a legendary figure, Dr. Beny Primm, who, in spite of some of his own biases and blindspots, transformed into one of the era's leading medical advocates for Black people with HIV and AIDs. Along the way, we learn how one community was able to change — and we ask, what might have been different if that change had come sooner?Voices in the episode:• George Bellinger grew up in Queens, New York. He's been involved in activism since he was a teenager. He was an original board member of Gay Men of African Descent and also worked at GMHC and other HIV and AIDS organizations. He says his work is to “champion those who don't always have a champion.”• Gil Gerald is a Black HIV and AIDS activist and writer, who co-founded the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays.• Cathy Cohen is the author of “The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics,” which is considered a definitive history of the epidemic in Black communities.• Governor David Paterson is the former governor of New York State and a former state senator. He is the son of Basil Paterson, who served as state senator from Harlem in the late 1960s, secretary of New York State in the 1980s, and was a longtime member of Harlem's political establishment.• Pernessa Seele is an immunologist and interfaith public health activist. She founded the Harlem Week of Prayer to End Aids and the Balm in Gilead.• Maxine Frere is a retired nurse who spent the entirety of her 40-year career at Harlem Hospital. A lifelong Harlem resident, she's been a member of First AME Church: Bethel since she was a kid.• Dr. Beny Primm was a nationally recognized expert on drug addiction and substance abuse treatment. His work on addiction led him to becoming one of the world's foremost experts on HIV and AIDS.• Lawrence Brown was Dr. Beny Primm's protégé who worked as an internist at Harlem Hospital and at Dr. Primm's Addiction Recovery and Treatment Center in Brooklyn. Brown served on the National Black Commission on AIDS, American Society of Addiction Medicine and took over for Dr. Primm as Director of ARTC (now START) when he retired.• Jeanine Primm-Jones is the daughter of Dr. Beny Primm, a pioneer of addiction treatment and recovery. Primm is a clinical social worker, abuse recovery specialist and wellness coach, who worked with her father for decades before his death in 2015.• Phill Wilson is the founder of the Black AIDS Institute, AIDS policy director for the city of Los Angeles at the height of the epidemic and a celebrated AIDS activist in both the LGBTQ+ and Black communities since the early 1980s.Audio from the 1986 American Public Health Association annual conference comes from APHA.Dr. Beny Primm archival audio comes from History Makers.This episode contains a brief mention of suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, there's help available. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is open 24 hours a day by calling or texting 988. There's also a live chat option on their website.Blindspot is a co-production of The HISTORY® Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with The Nation Magazine.A companion photography exhibit by Kia LaBeija featuring portraits from the series is on view through March 11 at The Greene Space at WNYC. The photography for Blindspot was supported by a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes coverage of social inequality and economic justice.

Kai Wright's WNYC podcast, Blindspot, revisits the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, focusing in particular on populations that are frequently overlooked — including the pediatric patients at Harlem Hospital.

Kai Wright's WNYC podcast, Blindspot, revisits the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, focusing in particular on populations that are frequently overlooked — including the pediatric patients at Harlem Hospital.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

It's the 1980s — Harlem, USA — and the 17th floor of the area's struggling public hospital is filling up with infants and children who arrive and then never leave. Some spend their whole lives on the pediatric ward, celebrating birthdays, first steps and first words with the nurses and doctors who've become their surrogate family. Welcome to Harlem Hospital at the height of the HIV and AIDS epidemics.When the nurses and doctors at this community hospital first began to see infants suffering from an unusual wasting disease, they were alarmed. They had heard that a strange new illness was killing gay men, but no one was talking about women and children. Soon, however, it became clear that HIV was sweeping through Harlem, sickening mothers who then passed it — unknowingly — to their kids. As the crisis grew, AIDS turned the pediatrics ward of Harlem Hospital into a makeshift home — and a makeshift family — for kids who were either too sick to go home, or who no longer had families to go home to.Voices in the episode include:• Dr. Margaret Heagarty was a doctor who ran the pediatric department at Harlem Hospital Center for nearly 20 years. She died in 2022. Archival interview with Margaret Heagarty comes from the Columbia Center for Oral History.• Dr. Stephen Nicholas was a pediatrician at Harlem Hospital Center for two decades.• Maxine Frere, a lifelong Harlem resident, is a retired nurse who spent the entirety of her 40-year career at Harlem Hospital Center.• Monica Digrado was a pediatric nurse at Harlem Hospital Center.• Victor Reyes was born at Harlem Hospital Center and spent much of his childhood receiving treatment and care at the hospital's pediatric AIDS unit.Blindspot is a co-production of The HISTORY® Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with The Nation Magazine.A companion photography exhibit by Kia LaBeija featuring portraits from the series is on view through March 11 at The Greene Space at WNYC. The photography for Blindspot was supported by a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes coverage of social inequality and economic justice.

Episode 18: Emergencies, Injuries, and First Aid with Dr. Nkeiru Orajiaka, Pediatric Emergency Room Doctor Nobody ever wants to take their child to the emergency room, but the reality is, it can happen to the best of us! So this week, join Rachael and special guest, Dr. Nkeiru Orajiaka, a Pediatric ER Doctor, as they discuss all things emergencies and safety for our children. Dr. Orajiaka shares some tips for parents to prevent common accidents and keep children safe at home. You won't want to miss her discussion about head bumps, drowning hazards, and safety proofing. Dr. Nkeiruka also shares a GREAT piece of advice for parents who trying to decide if a symptom or injury warrants a trip to the emergency room or not. Dr. Nkeiru Orajiaka is a board-certified Pediatrician, Pediatric ER doctor, public health physician, wife and mom of 3. Dr. Orajiaka completed her Masters in Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York and her residency at Columbia University affiliation at Harlem Hospital. She currently practices as an Pediatrics ER fellow in one of the largest emergency rooms in the US. She is a passionate health educator and a strong advocate for children's health and safety. Dr. Nkeiru's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Hbqdxg9xMYHDgKahCoDZA  Ebook on First Aid: https://drnkeiru.com/first-aid-kit/  Rachael is a mom of 3, founder of Hey, Sleepy Baby, and the host of this podcast. Instagram (Show page) Tiktok (Rachael's tiktok account) Show Website (transcripts available!) For more on biologically normal infant sleep and a holistic approach to getting more sleep, visit heysleepybaby.com and follow on instagram.

In the fifty-fourth episode of the Better Eyesight Podcast, Nathan Oxenfeld and Dr. Ray Gottlieb read through the fifty-fourth Better Eyesight magazine that was originally published in December 1923 by Dr. William H. Bates, the pioneer of natural vision improvement. Exactly 100 years later, these two natural vision educators breathe life back into the words of Dr. Bates, and also provide some modern commentary on the topics brought up in each article. Better Eyesight, December 1923 "A monthly magazine devoted to the prevention and cure of imperfect sight without glasses" Article 1 [8:00] One Thing Discussion 1 [10:30] Article 2 [35:45] The Cadet by W. H. Bates, M.D. Discussion 2 [44:00] Article 3 [01:05:10] Stories From The Clinic ~ 46: Our Last Christmas at the Harlem Hospital by Emily C. Lierman Discussion 3 [1:10:40] Article 4 [1:16:55] Discarding Glasses at 60 by Dr. Adolph Selige Discussion 4 [1:23:45] Article 5 [1:33:44] Minutes of the Better Eyesight League Discussion 5 [1:37:10] Article 6 [1:44:50] The Passing Of My Glasses by Mildred Shepard Discussion 6 [1:47:40] Article 7 [1:53:53] “Unseeing Eyes” by Emily A. Meder Discussion 7 [2:02:02] Article 8 [2:11:30] The Use of the Burning Glass by W. H. Bates, M.D. Discussion 8 [2:14:05] Article 9 [2:30:40] Announcements —BETTER EYESIGHT LEAGUE ONLY— Article 9 & Discussion 9 [2:32:15] Questions And Answers Contact us at bettereyesightpodcast@gmail.com Nathan's website - https://integraleyesight.com  Ray's website - https://raygottlieb.com  Join the Better Eyesight League - https://patreon.com/bettereyesight

Four years after Amy Lam died in 2016, court records show Dr. Thomas J. Byrne was involved in another incident at Harlem Hospital. A baby was allegedly lacerated down his back and buttocks during a cesarean-section. For the people whose cases were central to Byrne losing his license in New York over 30 years ago, the fact that he is able to practice  in the state again stirs up difficult memories and feelings of anger and betrayal. “They even said he'll never practice medicine again in New York state,” said John Henries, whose son was delivered by Byrne in the 1990s. “That's a lie.” In this episode, we examine what the record shows about New York's decision to restore Byrne's medical license. And share a discovery made along the way that may help explain at least one reason he has managed to continue practicing all these years.Listen to our earlier episodes:Episode 1: Wrongful DeathEpisode 2: License RevokedEpisode 3: The GatekeepersEpisode 4: Loopholes

Episode 1: Wrongful Death In 2016, Amy Lam was at an exciting time in her life. She'd recently graduated from Columbia journalism school and was expecting her second child. But then tragedy struck. Shortly after giving birth at home, she was brought to Harlem Hospital where medical records show she bled to death under the care of several physicians. One of those doctors was Dr. Thomas J. Byrne, an OB-GYN with a concerning track record that spans more than three decades. In 1990, New York health officials declared Byrne an “imminent danger” to the public and stripped him of his medical license. And yet, Byrne is still seeing patients today. How does a doctor with a documented track record of medical negligence continue practicing for so long? Reporter Karen Shakerdge, along with WNYC's investigative editor Christopher Werth, examine who's responsible for ensuring patient safety. This series was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Illustration by Golden Cosmos

On September 20, 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. was seriously injured after a woman stabbed him with a letter opener during a book signing in Harlem. King was in a store signing copies of his newly released book, "Stride Toward Freedom," when a 42-year-old, mentally disturbed woman lunged at him with the letter opener, lodging its tip deep in King's chest. After the incident, King was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where he underwent nearly 2.5 hours of surgery. The operating doctors told King that if he had sneezed, the blade would have fatally punctured an organ. When asked whether he was angry about the attack, King reportedly said, "I think she needs help. I'm not angry at her." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How To Live An Abundant Life| Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad Healing With Angelica Podcast With Special Guest Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad Episode: 72 On this episode Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad and I will be discussing how to live an abundant life and diving deep into how he managed to live an abundant life as well, and where we can start to live our abundant life now! A pioneer with so much GEMS! Guest Info: Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad is a native of York, Pennsylvania where he was born, raised and attended public schools. He was a star athlete in track and field, a National Merit Scholar, an actor, an accomplished poet and a musician. His involvement in civil and human rights struggles began at the age of six when he attended a NAACP convention in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. On academic scholarship, he attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and graduated with a degree in Biology in 1971. In 1975, he graduated from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and spent the next five years in training at Harlem Hospital in New York to become a General Surgeon. He has held several teaching positions at various medical centers and universities, but pursuing his interest in community-based alternative medicine, he founded the Abundant Life Clinic in 1986. He is best known for his clinical research in HIV/AIDS and is a pioneer in the use of Kemron for the treatment of HIV disease. More info about The Host, Angelica X Are you ready to start your healing journey? Well “Healing With Angelica” is here for you! Let's chat! & book a 1 hour consultation call with me TODAY! LINK BELOW TO SCHEDULE including “HWA” Merchandise & MORE! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://linktr.ee/healwithangelica Heyyyy! Would you like to advertise your business or product on my podcast and YouTube channel to reach more potential clients/customers? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Email: healwithangelica@yahoo.com Also remember too. . . Subscribe to our podcast: (Available on all podcast streams) https://anchor.fm/healingwithangelica Subscribe to our Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCGGovfyBC92zSj1GITVnUIg As well as Support this platform with a small donation to help sustain future episodes! DONATE|CONTRIBUTION

On today's episode, we get to speak to Georges Leconte, Chief Executive Officer of Harlem Hospital (NYC Health and Hospitals).It's no secret that the field of Public Administration isn't easy but one thing we can all agree on is that it's a rewarding field.Learn all you need to know about working as a CEO in a New York City hospital during the most challenging of times.During this episode, Georges also goes into the plethora of jobs and fields one can go into with a Master's Degree inPublic Administration. For more information on our Public Administration Master's Degree program with Alfred University please visit www.alfredapply.com or email Shaye@citeprograms.com  Be sure to RSVP to our next VIRTUAL OPEN  HOUSE via Zoom, all information on www.citeprograms.com

Before he would tragically pass away at the age of only 17 years old, rapper Edot Baby would be born Elijah Irvin on February 6th, 2005 in New York City's Harlem Hospital to his mother Tanya Gabriel -- a hairstylist -- and his father, Vincent Irvin. Thanks to the name he'd make for himself incredibly early on as a promising drill-rapper, most people tend to think that Edot came from the Bronx, but in point of fact, he was raised in Harlem. Now, last time we told Edot's story, we got our information a bit mixed-up and said that he was raised by a legal guardian named Tiffany Taylor. That was our mistake and one we're looking to rectify. Tiffany is actually Edot's sister and while he considered her both a sibling and a mother-figure, his actual mom, Tanya, as well has his father, both maintained a meaningful presence in his life as well.

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the fifth study session on Essie Mae Washington-Williams' Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond. We've read roughly half of the text, and Gus must admit this is one of the saddest books he's ever read. Essie Mae's confusion and father hunger for a child raping White Supremacist is... a sorrow-filled existence. Additionally, the lynchings of black males are such traumatic events in Essie Mae's life, readers can mark time by tracking black male corpses. Last week, Ms. Essie Mae detailed her experiences as a nurse at Harlem Hospital in New York. She seemed woefully discouraged from this profession because black patients are treated as worthless criminals who should die or experimented on like "guinea pigs." Her father met with her in New York to discuss her academic progress and to drop $500 on her. Thurmond excites her about attending Harvard University, only to pull the switcharoo to then encourage his secret daughter to attend South Carolina State University, the negro school. While her White father is prepping to become governor, Essie Mae's mother, Carrie Butler, appears destined for a medical catastrophe. Tragically, Essie Mae continues to hope and wish that Strom Thurmond loves she and her black mother. #DeadBeatWhiteDad INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE: 564943#

Thursday, April 14th 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific The Context of White Supremacy hosts the fifth study session on Essie Mae Washington-Williams' Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond. We've read roughly half of the text, and Gus must admit this is one of the saddest books he's ever read. Essie Mae's confusion and father hunger for a child raping White Supremacist is... a sorrow filled existence. Additionally, the lynchings of black males are such traumatic events in Essie Mae's life, readers can mark time by tracking black corpses. Last week, Ms. Essie Mae detailed her experiences as a nurse at Harlem Hospital in New York. She seemed woefully discouraged from this profession because black patients are treated as worthless criminals who should die or experimented on like "guinea pigs." Her father met with her in New York to discuss her academic progress and to drop $500 on her. Thurmond excites her about attending Harvard University, only to pull the switcharoo to then encourage his secret daughter to attend South Carolina State University, the negro school. While her White father is prepping to become governor, Essie Mae's mother, Carrie Butler, appears destined for a medical catastrophe. Tragically, Essie Mae continues to hope and wish that Strom Thurmond loves she and her black mother. #InterracialRelationshipsAreSADD #ChildRape INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Invest in The C.O.W.S. - https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. Radio Program is specifically engineered for black & non-white listeners - Victims of White Supremacy. The purpose of this program is to provide Victims of White Supremacy with constructive information and suggestions on how to counter Racist Woman & Racist Man. Phone: 1-720-716-7300 - Access Code 564943# Hit star *6 & 1 to enter caller cue

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the fourth study session on Essie Mae Washington-Williams' Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond. Having read three chapters of the book and conducted a smidgen of research, it seems equally incredible or embarrassing for a White college professor like J. Russell Hawkins to be ignorant about Strom Thurmond raping and impregnating a teenage black female. #WhitePeopleLieALot From the time Thurmond died in 2003, countless news reports acknowledged that Carrie Butler was a child at the time Thurmond raped her. Last week, Ms. Essie Mae provided another round of details about the rampant squalor black people lived in because of White Supremacy. Interestingly, she also detailed the widespread White Supremacist medical practices targeting black people in New York: "blacks in Harlem couldn't get decent medical care. Harlem Hospital, if it treated blacks at all, did so in a similar way to Coatesville Hospital, putting them in the poverty ward, or, far worse, using them as medical guinea pigs, testing medicines and therapies on them without their knowledge or consent." #HenriettaLacks She describes White senators successful efforts to block anti-lynching legislation and more and more heaps of unemployed, down and out, no count, black males. Essie Mae briefly meets with her blue-eyed, White father, Strom Thurmond, for the second time and ponders if this strange White man had a "romance" with or was just sexually "using" her mother. Tellingly, Essie Mae says she "followed" heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis. But her "heart belonged to the adorable Frank Sinatra." This White entertainer has much in common with her White dad. Sinatra was 50 when he married 21-year-old Mia Farrow, who later married Woody Allen. Sinatra was also known as "old blue eyes." #DeadBeatWhiteDad INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE: 564943#

Thursday, April 7th 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific The Context of White Supremacy hosts the fourth study session on Essie Mae Washington-Williams' Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond. Having read three chapters of the book and conducted a smidgen of research, it seems equally incredible or embarrassing for a White college professor like J. Russell Hawkins to be ignorant about Strom Thurmond raping and impregnating a teenage black female. #WhitePeopleLieALot From the time Thurmond died in 2003, countless news reports acknowledged that Carrie Butler was a child at the time Thurmond raped her. Last week, Ms. Essie Mae provided another round of details about the rampant squalor black people lived in because of White Supremacy. Interestingly, she also detailed the widespread White Supremacist medical practices targeting black people in New York: "blacks in Harlem couldn't get decent medical care. Harlem Hospital, if it treated blacks at all, did so in a similar way to Coatesville Hospital, putting them in the poverty ward, or, far worse, using them as medical guinea pigs, testing medicines and therapies on them without their knowledge or consent." #HenriettaLacks She describes White senators successful efforts to block anti-lynching legislation and more and more heaps of unemployed, down and out, no count, black males. Essie Mae briefly meets with her blue-eyed, White father, Strom Thurmond, for the second time and ponders if this strange White man had a "romance" with or was just sexually "using" her mother. Tellingly, Essie Mae says she "followed" heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis. But her "heart belonged to the adorable Frank Sinatra." This White entertainer has much in common with her White dad. Sinatra was 50 when he married 21-year-old Mia Farrow, who later married Woody Allen. Sinatra was also known as "old blue eyes." #InterracialRelationshipsAreSADD #ChildRape INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Invest in The C.O.W.S. - https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. Radio Program is specifically engineered for black & non-white listeners - Victims of White Supremacy. The purpose of this program is to provide Victims of White Supremacy with constructive information and suggestions on how to counter Racist Woman & Racist Man. Phone: 1-720-716-7300 - Access Code 564943# Hit star *6 & 1 to enter caller cue

SEASON 2: EP. 5 Story of Ronald Draper Theme: Leaping Into the Unknown Bravely and Courageously In this episode, Jennifer interviews Ronald Draper, a philanthropist and mixed-media artist who uses his artistry as a vehicle to connect and empower people. He has work with companies such as Starbucks, T-Mobile, and Adidas Original. He is also the Lead Art Educator for the Eagle Academy Network, the Director of Contemporary Arts & Culture at the Harlem Hospital and serves as a creative partner to organizations like City Year New York, The Wells Fargo Foundation, and select few New York City Public Schools. For the first time, Ron tells his full story, growing up not being raised by his biological mother, to being influenced by arts at a young age and how he coped with the grief of losing his dad through art to his journey of becoming a mixed media artist and educator for New York City. This episode ends with a guided meditation focused on the theme of the episode

A statue of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt that sat in front of a NYC museum for almost 80 years was removed this week after criticism over its "racial" image. The sculpture, which was located at the American Museum of Natural History, featured the 26th president on horseback with a Native American man and an African man on either side of him. In my opinion,erasing history won't change anything. We need to preserve history in order to have productive discussions about the past. Most Americans don't care about statues. They care about the economy, inflation, rising food and gas prices and raging crime that's destroying American cities. Also 2 NYPD officers who were shot when they responded to a domestic dispute were identified overnight. The NYPD said 22-year-old Jason Rivera died while 27-year-old Wilbert Mora remains in critical condition at Harlem Hospital after being shot in the back of the skull saturday morning. UPDATE: Officer William Mora passed away on Tuesday, February 1st. New York City Mayor Eric Adams had all flags lowered to half staff out of respect for Rivera. Eric Adams later visited the NYC 32nd police precinct, where Rivera was stationed out of, and where memorial was hung outside. This crime is raging in liberal run cities and it's time for the leaders to step up and take back their city. I been discussing this anti police rhetoric for a few years now and it's fueling these senseless attacks on people that wear the badge. Our reality is becoming more and more dehumanized, which can be expected given what's going on with this "We can't hurt anyone's feelings" type system, literally everything else we value gets sacrificed to that goal. Until we, as a society, begin to acknowledge this and shift our goal back to protecting the American people we can expect this downward spiral and crime to continue. Email: realnewsocala@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lee-leffingwell/support

Ebro, Rosenberg and Laura Stylez star in HOT97's flagship program Ebro in the Morning - this episode aired on 1/21/2022. Ebro, Rosenberg, Laura Stylez, and the crew are in the studio - Ebro doesn't talk about Big Energy! The crew discusses the prominence of Dr. Pimple Popper (21), ice skating (37), and the gurus give advice! Phillip D. Cook from the Harlem Hospital calls in!  All that and more on Ebro In The Morning!  Click here to learn about the Hot 97 - Securing the Future initiative.  Please like and subscribe to Ebro In The Morning. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This interview was recorded via video conference on  October 29, 2021 by Angela Denise Davis. Gaye Adegbalola talked about her early years in Virginia, college life in Boston, and her career as a Blues musician, griot, and activist. Gaye Adegbalola's website: https://adegbalola.com/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GayeAdegbalolaMusician/ Gaye Todd Adegbalola, a Blues Music Award winner, is best known musically as a founding member of Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women (1984 – 2009). The group recorded exclusively with Alligator Records. Additionally, she has 6 recordings on her own label, Hot Toddy Music (Todd is her family name). Gaye was born and raised in Fredericksburg, Virginia where she sat-in, picketed and protested its racism. She graduated as valedictorian of the then-segregated Walker-Grant High School, went “ up North” to Boston University to finish with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry. Prior to becoming a teacher, she worked as a technical writer for TRW Systems, a biochemical researcher at Rockefeller University, and a bacteriologist at Harlem Hospital. She has a Master's degree in Educational Media (with a concentration in photography) from Virginia State University.

We are so excited to bring you an interesting perspective with Dr. Itay Wiser, MD, PHD who owns Wiser MD in Manhattan, NY and also serves as Chief of Surgical Ambulatory Services at Harlem Hospital. We meander from his start in Israel in epidemiology to publishing over 50 peer reviewed articles, to how his creativity in music translates into the art of treating his patients. In addition, we discuss the importance of a strong life partner when dealing with pressure and how this helps with accountability and success. Further, we dive into what it means to be beautiful, how aesthetics is communication and how beauty can be brought out in almost anyone. Learn more: IG @dr.itaywiser www.wisermd.com About Dr. Wiser I am a New York Licensed and an Israeli Board Certified Plastic Surgeon. I am an attending plastic surgeon and the Chief of Surgical Ambulatory Services at Harlem Hospital after completing two specialty fellowship programs: a reconstructive microsurgery fellowship specializing in aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital, and a Lymphedema surgery fellowship program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. I hold a PhD in epidemiology and public health from the Sackler School of Medicine in Israel, which helps me to evaluate novel published treatments and technologies that can benefit my patients. I believe that my medical knowledge directly correlates with the quality of care I provide to my patients, and therefore, in addition to patient care, I am routinely involved in medical research. I am the author of more than 50 peer reviewed scientific publications, and often present my own work in international plastic surgery conferences. My main research interest is patient reported outcome measurement, a new tool that puts the patient in the center of care. I care for every patient like she or he is my first degree relative. I am responsible for my patients no matter the outcome, and without an expiration date. My relationship with my patients is built on mutual trust, honesty and setting realistic expectations.” --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/diamondhands/message

This week on the podcast, host Marcia Ramirez talks about the latest information on Covid-19 and the pandemic  with her guests, Amy Jean P.A. and Susie Tucker, R.N.Marcia asks questions sent in from listeners as well as questions of her own, and it turned out to be an enlightening and informative conversation. About the guests:Amy Jean is a certified physician assistant (PA) currently working in orthopedics and sports medicine. She has 10 years of experience as a PA, which includes time in family practice, orthopedics, urgent care, and hospital medicine. She spent 5 weeks treating COVID patients at Harlem Hospital in New York City during the height of the COVID pandemic. She lives in Nashville, Tn with her husband, Jamie and their sweet dog, Emmy. Susie Brewer is a registered nurse with over 30 years experience in ICU, infusion and community nursing. She has been monitoring COVID exposures for employees at Vanderbilt University Medical Center since the beginning of the pandemic. Her current role includes education, testing and vaccinations. A worship leader and mother of two teenage boys, she lives in Nashville with her husband, Jason and their sons, Jack and Sam.For more info about the latest Covid recommendation - here are some trusted link talked about by Amy and Susie in the episode:https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/ To watch this interview on youtube: https://youtu.be/15a9tddo46kDISCLAIMER:  All of the information shared today is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or give medical advice.For more information about God and My Girlfriends Ministries or to donate to help support this podcast, please go to www.godandmygirlfriendsonline.comOr our socials:Facebook: https: @godandmygirlfriendsministiresInstagram: @godandmygirlfriendsministriesTwitter: @godandmygirlfr1God And My Girlfriends Ministries A non-profit ministry helping women flourish in their relationships with God and others. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit marciaramirez.substack.com

In the third episode of Little Science Talks Season 1, Heidi Gardner and her co-host Anna Kebke are joined by Kiara Whittle. Kiara is a Chemist from Brooklyn, New York, and she joins us to talk about her experiences with STEM growing up. She was surrounded by STEM as a child; both of her Grandmothers were Nurses, one of them a Head Nurse at Harlem Hospital, New York, and her Grandfather worked at a tech company. When it came to science herself, Kiara was surrounded by support from her parents and teachers, but could not see herself in scientific role models - a further reminder that young girls, particularly young Black girls, need to see scientists that look like them.In her new job at a robotics company, Kiara works to make Scientists' lives easier, streamlining lab processes to ensure that science advances as efficiently as possible. Alongside her day job, she works hard to be the role model she didn't have, taking part in initiatives like Letters To A Pre-Scientist and writing to school-aged children around the world. Kiara also has her own podcast, which aims to show that Scientists are fully rounded people with personalities and social lives, in her own words, "half of us are under 30, we have Afros, we have locs, we have big eyes, big lips. We wear hoop earrings. Like I can wear Jordans and I can wear heels."Find out more about Kiara and her work here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ki_thechemist/Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cognac-chemistry/id1510192226Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cognacandchempod/Instagram that highlights Black owned brands: https://www.instagram.com/thekidirectory_/?hl=en-gbLetters to a Pre-Scientist: https://prescientist.org/Interesting Letters to a Pre-Scientist blog post about being first gen: https://www.prescientist.org/2018/03/21/being-first-gen-what-it-means-what-it-doesnt-and-how-to-help/Skype a Scientist: https://www.skypeascientist.com/For more information about Little Science Co head to the website: littlescienceco.com, follow on Instagram: instagram.com/littlescienceco, or follow on Twitter: twitter.com/littlescienceco. A blog post with full transcript will be available on the Little Science Co blog in the coming days: littlescienceco.com/blog.See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Advocacy can take many forms in the cancer community — from advocating for yourself or a loved one to receive the best possible treatment to calling your Congressperson or testifying on Capitol Hill to demand increased access to care. This episode explores different ways cancer mavericks have elevated survivors' needs and improved their lives, including the pioneering patient navigation model created by Dr. Harold Freeman at Harlem Hospital, the story of Ellen Stovall's fearless and collaborative approach to policy, shaped around a shared agenda to represent the needs of all cancer survivors, and the landmark 1998 March on Washington called Coming Together To Conquer Cancer. For more information about this series, visit https://CancerMavericks.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Advocacy can take many forms in the cancer community — from advocating for yourself or a loved one to receive the best possible treatment to calling your Congressperson or testifying on Capitol Hill to demand increased access to care. This episode explores different ways cancer mavericks have elevated survivors' needs and improved their lives, including the pioneering patient navigation model created by Dr. Harold Freeman at Harlem Hospital, the story of Ellen Stovall's fearless and collaborative approach to policy, shaped around a shared agenda to represent the needs of all cancer survivors, and the landmark 1998 March on Washington called Coming Together To Conquer Cancer. For more information about this series, visit https://CancerMavericks.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode 1546: Our article of the day is Harlem Hospital Center.

Kristin Richardson Jordan (KRJ) is a third-generation Harlemite who has known Harlem since she was four months old. She is the daughter of Dr. Lynne Richardson and Dr. Desmond Jordan, two minority physicians trained at the historic Harlem Hospital.Kristin is passionate about social justice, and the history, politics, and culture(s) of all people generally and Black people in particular.In this podcast, Kristen talks about:How did she get interested in civic engagement and running for City Council?Her goals for serving on the NYC city council?What did she learn during her campaign? Her advice to others who are interested in running for office?

In the 1970s, New York City was broke. Today, we know the city eventually bounced back, but at what cost? When a city is broke, who pays? Mayor Ed Koch dramatically cut the city’s budget in an effort solve a $600 million deficit. Among the cuts, were city hospitals. One in particular, Sydenham Hospital in Harlem, was a neighborhood institution with an important history for the Black community. When Mayor Koch announced the city was closing Sydenham, the community mobilized to save it. The years-long fight culminated in a takeover of the hospital by demonstrators in September 1980. What made Harlem fight so hard for this hospital? And why wouldn’t Mayor Koch listen? We spoke with New Yorkers who were central in the fight to save Sydenham. Ebun Adelona, MS, PhD, CPHQ, a community organizer whose dissertation “The Social Relations of Health” was a critical resource for this project. Carole Doneghy, a social worker at Harlem Hospital, and Judy Wessler, a health advocate, both of whom were active in organizing efforts. Haskell Ward, former Deputy Mayor in the Koch Administration, who resigned over the plans to close Sydenham.

Food has a way of bringing people together across cultures and backgrounds. Kids are notoriously picky eaters and need guidance to make healthy food decisions. Pilot Light is a nonprofit partnering teachers and chefs to make learning about food fun. Alex DeSorbo-Quinn is the executive director of Pilot Light and joined Aine for a conversation about food and self-care on this week’s edition of Rock Your Joy. Listen to the conversation to find out how Pilot Light was inspired by Michelle Obama, why the partnership between chefs and teachers is so meaningful, and how to find self-care in unexpected moments. Join the conversation! (02:19) - How to make health education fun (04:42) - The power of music (07:48) - Defining food education withhttps://pilotlightchefs.org/ ( Pilot Light) (17:46) - Growth & expansion (23:21) - Changing food in the home (28:05) - Practicing self-care (29:40) - How is Alex cultivating joy? Pilot Light Programs: https://pilotlightchefs.org/what-we-do/food-education-fellowship/ (Food Education Fellowship) https://foodedu.pilotlightchefs.org/ (The Food Education Center) https://foodedu.pilotlightchefs.org/family-resources/ (Family Meal Resources) https://foodedu.pilotlightchefs.org/elearning-lesson-plans/ (Pilot Light Anywhere) https://foodedu.pilotlightchefs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/PL_FES_2018.pdf (Food Education Standards) Alex DeSorbo-Quinn is the executive director of Pilot Light, a nonprofit that partners teachers with chefs to encourage food education. She is originally from upstate New York and now lives in the Chicago area with her husband and three young children, Tommy, Oliver, and Poppy. Alex started her career at Harlem Hospital in New York City, where she became involved in school-based health education programs that gave young students the knowledge and tools to save lives through hip hop music. Recognizing the power of the creative arts to engage students in learning, she decided to devote her career to it and has had the honor of serving as Pilot Light's first executive director since 2014. Together with an incredible team of educators and chefs, Pilot Light has reached more than 12,000 students nationwide with important food education by teaching about food–through food–in subjects like math and English. https://www.instagram.com/aine_rockyourjoy/ (Aine Rock) is an artist, entrepreneur, mom and High Performance Coach working on becoming the best version of herself and inspiring others to do the same. Rock Your Joy is a place for women to share the unique ways they find, cultivate, and celebrate joy. We’re often so focused on things happening to us that we forget that joy exists within us. Tune in every other week as we find that joy, together. If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to Rock Your Joy in https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-your-joy/id1501888277 (Apple Podcasts), https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9FMWE5a2IxRQ (Google Podcasts), https://open.spotify.com/show/7sqhsnfavKnP4yCeF8EXOL (Spotify) or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-your-joy/id1501888277 (Apple Podcasts). It really helps others find the show. https://www.dante32.com/ (Podcast episode production by Dante32.)

How we fail black patients in pain, AAMC.org, January 6, 2020, LinkThe 'Father of Modern Gynecology' Performed Shocking Experiments on Enslaved Women, History.com, December 4, 2018, LinkAmerica is Failing its Black Mothers, Harvard Public Health, Winter 2019, LinkBeyonce, Serena Williams open up about potentially fatal childbirths, a problem especially for black mothers, Washington Post, Aug. 6, 2018, LinkWhat Serena Williams' scary childbirth story says about medical treatment of black women, Vox, Jan. 11, 2018, Link Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving's Story Explains Why, NPR, Dec. 7, 2017, LinkRacial and Ethnic Disparities Continue in Pregnancy-Related Deaths, CDC Newsroom, Sept. 5, 2019, LinkThe Health Care System and Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality, Center for American Progress, May 2018, LinkDr. Helen Octavia Dickens, Changing the Face of Medicine, Link

"There's so much in the culture that's not said rather than what is said. It's the subtleties...there's a beauty, a way of life that is more about the belief that less is more...about respect of each other and elders and the idea of namasté ~ the light in you is the light in me." Michelle Sakhai, New York City based artist, sharing about how her experience visiting family in Japan every summer while growing up informs her art and how she lives her life. In this episode, you'll feel that respect and light coming through in Michelle's way of being. There's such grounded strength and gentleness in her words and her paintings. We talk about how Michelle naturally tunes into her body, mind, and spirit when she's painting, what she's learned from teaching transformative art at the Harlem Hospital, and how her spirituality has evolved over time. We also discuss the importance of recognizing and honoring the many ways in which 2020 opened the door for reflection, introspection, and creativity. We concluded with Michelle sharing about what the power of women means to her and and what she’s looking forward to in 2021. Enjoy! Website - https://www.michellesakhai.com/ Book “Awakening” - https://www.michellesakhai.com/artistbook/awakening/book Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/michellesakhaiart/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/SakhaiMichelle Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/michellesakhai/ LinkedIn ~ https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-sakhai-9348a412/

"There's so much in the culture that's not said rather than what is said. It's the subtleties...there's a beauty, a way of life that is more about the belief that less is more...about respect of each other and elders and the idea of namasté ~ the light in you is the light in me." Michelle Sakhai, New York City based artist, sharing about how her experience visiting family in Japan every summer while growing up informs her art and how she lives her life. In this episode, you'll feel that respect and light coming through in Michelle's way of being. There's such grounded strength and gentleness in her words and her paintings. We talk about how Michelle naturally tunes into her body, mind, and spirit when she's painting, what she's learned from teaching transformative art at the Harlem Hospital, and how her spirituality has evolved over time. We also discuss the importance of recognizing and honoring the many ways in which 2020 opened the door for reflection, introspection, and creativity. We concluded with Michelle sharing about what the power of women means to her and and what she's looking forward to in 2021. Enjoy! Website - https://www.michellesakhai.com/ Book “Awakening” - https://www.michellesakhai.com/artistbook/awakening/book Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/michellesakhaiart/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/SakhaiMichelle Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/michellesakhai/ LinkedIn ~ https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-sakhai-9348a412/

Being a good pastor and writer means bringing one's whole self to the page, to the sanctuary, and to the community. For Wesley Morris, it also means embracing a "luminous darkness" – a phrase coined by mystic Howard Thurman – as a place of transformation.   In this conversation, Pastor Morris describes his experiences as a chaplain at Harlem Hospital and as a student at Union Theological Seminary, where he studied under Black liberation theologian Dr. James Cone and wrote a Master's thesis titled: "A Dark Faith." He also discusses his time at the 2014 Writing to Change the World Collegeville Institute workshop led by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, where participants shared vulnerable writing with one another. Morris believes that writing can build bridges across our divides, allowing love to travel from one world to another. 

www.michellesakhai.com Born in 1983, in Long Island, New York, Michelle Sakhai's extensive world travels began at an early age and her mixed heritage have shaped her as an artist. With both Persian and Japanese roots, her art derives influences from both cultures. She grew up traveling to Japan to visit her family every summer for twenty years. In Japan, Sakhai was inspired by the culture and scenery of her grandparents’ hometown, Kashiwazaki, a tiny village by the sea, surrounded by vast mountains. This special place left an indelible impression that still feeds her imagination. Sakhai’s creative perception and talent was also nurtured by her Persian culture. The exposure to both traditions in her young life has impacted her artistic vision. In 2004, Sakhai received a Bachelor of Arts degree with high honors, majoring in Art History and minoring in Fine Arts from Hofstra University where she currently serves on the advisory board for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She went on to receive her Masters in Fine Arts in 2010 from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. Before obtaining her Masters, she studied in Venice, Italy, and in Barcelona, Spain, at d'Arts Plastique I Disseny (LLOTJA) with the School of Visual Arts. Sakhai also studied at the Marchutz Academy of Fine Art in Aix en Provence. In 2006, she received a grant to attend the Vermont Studio Center as a resident artist in Johnson, VT. Shortly after receiving her Masters in San Francisco, she taught Fine Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Michelle Sakhai is represented by galleries Internationally and in the U.S. including; Slate Art Contemporary in Oakland, CA, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art in Scarsdale, NY, Corazon Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, MiXX Projects in Telluride, CO and Giovanni Rossi Fine Art in Miami, Florida. She continues to exhibit worldwide with a solo show at Palette Gallery in Tokyo, Japan and B12 Gallery in Ibiza, Spain. Her work has been featured at Art Market Hamptons and Context Art Miami and NY by Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. Sakhai actively exhibits on both coasts, in San Francisco and New York City. She was selected to be the artist in residence at The Fairmont San Francisco in January, 2017. Her work has been displayed in New York City at The Art Show through the ADAA at the Park Avenue Armory, LIC Arts Open, and the Lehman Art Gallery in NYC, and at Stanford Art Spaces, MarinMOCA and SOMArts in the San Francisco, Bay Area. In pursuit of her spiritual path, Michelle Sakhai is a Primordial Sound Meditation instructor through the Chopra Center, as well as a certified Reiki Master. She believes and trusts in the energy of the creative spirit as a healing force on the earth. Sakhai conveys this valuable message of healing through her art and all her speaking engagements. She teaches Transformative Art at the Harlem Hospital through the Art Works Foundation in New York City where she currently resides while continuing to travel the world.

Michelle Sakhai is a contemporary artist based in New York. With over 20 years of experience exploring plein air painting before transitioning to the abstract, Michelle’s vision is to create transformative art that touches the soul. In addition to exhibiting her paintings across the nation and worldwide, Michelle also serves on the advisory board for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Hofstra University and teaches Transformative Art at the Harlem Hospital. In this episode… Do you want to take your art to the next level? Then, in the words of contemporary artist Michelle Sakhai, simply let go. Free your mind from any artistic constraints and allow your hands to create. This is the mindset that allowed Michelle to experience her artistic awakening and discover her authentic vision as a painter.  Michelle's ingenuity and ability to go beyond her area of expertise have paved the way for her free-flowing abstract art. After specializing in plein air painting for over 20 years, Michelle made the transition to the abstract—and she has never felt more connected to her craft.  In this week's episode of Pencil Kings, host Mitch Bowler sits down with contemporary fine artist, author, and educator, Michelle Sakhai. They discuss letting go of form, finding the balance between reality and expectations as an artist, and pursuing your unique artistic expression. Michelle also emphasizes the importance of experiencing the business side of the art world, in addition to honing your craft. Stay tuned!

Podcast Description "And I really felt so emboldened by what was going on that I asked to speak to [him/former manager] again. And I said, and I spoke to him on the phone and I said: Ya know, I want to be completely honest with you, um while I understand this was not your intention this was the impact of your actions on me. These actions that I listed...it wasn't even a comprehensive list...all of these actions left me feeling humiliated and demoralized. I could not fully inhabit my role if you were not going to allow whoever it is, ya know, to be in that position to fully inhabit that role like you should have just been straight up from the beginning and said you know, you're going to come in and do this, but I'm going to be right there with you and you're not going to get any of the acclaim or any recognition, if someone had told me that from the get-go, I would have known what I was getting into, and probably wouldn't have gone, um. Just be honest about what the reality is. Dr. Oni Blackstock is recognized as a thought leader and influencer in the areas of HIV, health equity, and racial justice. She is the founder and Executive Director of Health Justice, a consulting firm providing content expertise in HIV, sexual health, LGBTQ health and racial equity to organizations focused on public health and health care. She is a primary care and HIV doctor and researcher who sees patients at Harlem Hospital. Dr. Blackstock recently served as Assistant Commissioner for the New York City Health Department’s Bureau of HIV where she led the City’s response to the HIV epidemic. She received her undergraduate and her medical degrees from Harvard and completed her primary care Internal Medicine residency and ambulatory chief residency Montefiore/Einstein as well as an HIV clinical fellowship at Harlem Hospital. She received a Masters of Health Sciences Research from Yale School of Medicine's Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program. Additional Resources https://twitter.com/DrOniBee/status/1259791334484905985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1259791334484905985%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.trello.services%2Ftweets.html7B22secret223A22q2lowr4dPQxtMqkipiChGUoPxIWXfun9ck1NeKMMku3FKHd1nhyo9fo9cKq6wPnC222C22context223A7B22version223A22build-5905222C22member223A2255e97874dbb2337d37e76966222C22permissions223A7B22board223A22write222C22organization223A22write222C22card223A22write227D2C22organization223A225b509813b0d9fe70470296b9222C22board223A225b5098454efea8c1ff937ab4222C22card223A225f68bf03b7ed814ac83764ca222C22command223A22attachment-sections227D2C22locale223A22en-US227D Transcription Coming Soon! Twitter Dr. Oni Blackstock Become a #causeascene Podcast sponsor because disruption and innovation are products of individuals who take bold steps in order to shift the collective and challenge the status quo. Learn more > All music for the #causeascene podcast is composed and produced by Chaos, Chao Pack, and Listen on SoundCloud. Listen to more great #causeascene podcasts full podcast list >

Jewels was born in Harlem Hospital as an only child to a single mom. Her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when Jewels was ten, so they moved to Georgia to be closer to family. Her mom wasn’t working while she was undergoing chemo, so they were couch surfers without their own home...not the first time in her life that Jewels would find herself houseless. From that experience, Jewels developed a resilience that has lasted her well.I asked her if she had problems adjusting to Georgia, and she said the biggest difficulty was adapting because of colorism. When she came home speaking in Ebonics or AAVE, she was beaten because her family raised her to speak “properly” to fit in.At a mostly white boarding high school, she remembers a three-year-old calling her the n-word and a white woman complimenting her for how she used utensils. Although she married in her ‘20s and had three children, she always had this lingering feeling that something was not quite right in her life. Her family had been run by women, and she’d been attracted to girls as a young age. She suppressed her attraction to women until she was 30 years old, when she started reading books to explore the idea. Then one night a close gay friend said to her, “You know, you’re gay!” Jewels did some soul searching and realized her friend was right. She asked her mom if she could take care of her three daughters so she could restart her life. Her mom suggested Jewels wait until her 3-year-old reached the age of 18. Jewels responded,“No. I have waited roughly 30-some-odd years...if I don’t find out who I am, I will not be an effective parent..I will not live to my full potential, so I have to do this.”She quit her job, got on a bus with $500, and moved to Portland. The first shock was not all the white people...it was the cold. She also began to experience the subversive racism and microaggressions experienced by people of color in the predominantly white Northwest.Her kids joined her, but it took her 10 years to feel fully settled after more couch surfing and moving around in careers and homes. Jewels earned a degree in social work, but she realized she was not cut out for being a case manager...it didn’t help that she didn’t earn much more than the clients she was trying to help. Jewels met her wife Amy in 2014...they were dating other people but in the same Facebook group with Pacific Northwest Lesbians. They met at a picnic, hit it off, and six to eight weeks later, they committed to monogamy. Amy later proposed, surprising Jewels with her mom’s engagement ring. When I asked what it’s like to be a Black queer woman in Vancouver, she said, “I’m completely invisible. I rarely see other queer people, much less Black queer people outside of my own house..."When I met Jewels last summer, she said that when people fondly recall Little House on the Prairie, she thinks about her people being enslaved around that time. This statement helped me put new lenses on everything I view now...it makes me question how Black people, indigenous people, and other people of color are represented. We talked about the racism in these books, which she reread a few years ago after loving them as a child. "This is the disconnect I feel we have as a nation...that Harriet Tubman’s time was also Laura Ingalls’ time.” I am grateful to Jewels for the insights she shared with me and how she helped me to look at things in a completely new light. Jewels loves talking in front of people, and she shared news about her current projects.I asked her what book or story that had inspired her. Her immediate response was Sofia in The Color Purple, and we discovered it is our shared favorite novel. You can reach Jewels on Facebook or Instagram.

Law of the Land host Gloria Browne-Marshall, Constitutional Law Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice welcomes Dr. James McIntosh, Doctor of Psychiatry at Harlem Hospital for a discussion of the legacy of the 25th Amendment and an "unauthorized psychoanalysis of Donald Trump," --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gloria-j-browne-marshall/support

This week, Sam talks about Dr. Jane Cook Wright, the first Black & first female President of the New York Cancer Society!At the age of 33, Dr. Wright was appointed the director of the Cancer Research Foundation at Harlem Hospital, where she revolutionized cancer research, specifically the practices with which we determine how best to fight it. To learn more about her amazing accomplishments, check out the full episode & then head to www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com for more resources! A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!Broads You Should Know is Hosted by Sam Eggers, Sara Gorsky, & Justin Xavier.If you know of any Broads you think we should cover on a future episode, submit using the form on the website or send us an email at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com.IG: @BroadsYouShouldKnow@SaraGorsky@TheJustinXavier@SamLAEggers Podcast Produced by Justin Xavier & Jupiter Stone / Edited by Justin XavierVideo promo edited by Jupiter StoneWebsite designed & managed by Sara Gorsky

The Rev. Jackie McCullough was born in Jamaica and raised in New York by her preacher parents. With an inspiring voice that expresses from her heart, she reached out and expanded her domain of influence until she was world-renowned. Raised with a strong church influence, McCullough received her first call to the ministry when she was 16 years old. However, she wanted to be a medical doctor, and when she finished high school she went to nursing school, then worked as a pediatrics nurse at Harlem Hospital. After seven years of nursing, while planning to obtain her medical pediatrics degree, she was once again called upon by her Lord to be a minister. As her personal life had been tragic due to a divorce and the death of her two-hour-old, full-term, baby, McCullough quit nursing and followed the call. She began to minister to college students on Saturdays, and those in prisons and hospitals on Sundays. Her ministry began in the streets, and that influence is still reflected in the songs she writes, as she makes the text applicable to the pain felt by the street people. As a minister with the Elim International Fellowship, McCullough preaches over 120 times a year to audiences all over the U.S., Africa, Asia, Japan, and especially in Jamaica. Starting in 1997, McCullough started a yearly crusade to Jamaica that included doctors, dentists, and nurses along with the ministry. Each year they give away over 250,000 dollars of medication there. In October 1998, Interscope released McCullough's first album, This Is for You Lord. While she didn't actually sing any of the songs on this album, she did write all of them except the lead track, "In His Name," which was co-written with George E. Hyman Jr. She claims she hears the melody and words in her head but just can't sing.

The Rev. Jackie McCullough was born in Jamaica and raised in New York by her preacher parents. With an inspiring voice that expresses from her heart, she reached out and expanded her domain of influence until she was world-renowned. Raised with a strong church influence, McCullough received her first call to the ministry when she was 16 years old. However, she wanted to be a medical doctor, and when she finished high school she went to nursing school, then worked as a pediatrics nurse at Harlem Hospital. After seven years of nursing, while planning to obtain her medical pediatrics degree, she was once again called upon by her Lord to be a minister. As her personal life had been tragic due to a divorce and the death of her two-hour-old, full-term, baby, McCullough quit nursing and followed the call. She began to minister to college students on Saturdays, and those in prisons and hospitals on Sundays. Her ministry began in the streets, and that influence is still reflected in the songs she writes, as she makes the text applicable to the pain felt by the street people. As a minister with the Elim International Fellowship, McCullough preaches over 120 times a year to audiences all over the U.S., Africa, Asia, Japan, and especially in Jamaica. Starting in 1997, McCullough started a yearly crusade to Jamaica that included doctors, dentists, and nurses along with the ministry. Each year they give away over 250,000 dollars of medication there. In October 1998, Interscope released McCullough's first album, This Is for You Lord. While she didn't actually sing any of the songs on this album, she did write all of them except the lead track, "In His Name," which was co-written with George E. Hyman Jr. She claims she hears the melody and words in her head but just can't sing.

The Rev. Jackie McCullough was born in Jamaica and raised in New York by her preacher parents. With an inspiring voice that expresses from her heart, she reached out and expanded her domain of influence until she was world-renowned.Raised with a strong church influence, McCullough received her first call to the ministry when she was 16 years old. However, she wanted to be a medical doctor, and when she finished high school she went to nursing school, then worked as a pediatrics nurse at Harlem Hospital. After seven years of nursing, while planning to obtain her medical pediatrics degree, she was once again called upon by her Lord to be a minister. As her personal life had been tragic due to a divorce and the death of her two-hour-old, full-term, baby, McCullough quit nursing and followed the call. She began to minister to college students on Saturdays, and those in prisons and hospitals on Sundays. Her ministry began in the streets, and that influence is still reflected in the songs she writes, as she makes the text applicable to the pain felt by the street people. As a minister with the Elim International Fellowship, McCullough preaches over 120 times a year to audiences all over the U.S., Africa, Asia, Japan, and especially in Jamaica. Starting in 1997, McCullough started a yearly crusade to Jamaica that included doctors, dentists, and nurses along with the ministry. Each year they give away over 250,000 dollars of medication there.In October 1998, Interscope released McCullough's first album, This Is for You Lord. While she didn't actually sing any of the songs on this album, she did write all of them except the lead track, "In His Name," which was co-written with George E. Hyman Jr. She claims she hears the melody and words in her head but just can't sing.

Could you imagine being an eleven-year-old in your mom's clinic and prescribing meds when your mom stepped out?  . How would you move differently if you lived in a place where it was looked down on to be a Christian? . How are pediatricians different from other doctors?  . Could the root of all of our greatest challenges in life be the same issue/trigger?  . What is one thing that God always does no matter what life is throwing at us? .  How can we take professional risks even when we are nervous?  . All of this and more is explored as Dr. Hilary Mawia gets cozy in The Listening Chair. Please your ears on Spotify, iTunes, or wherever else you get your podcasts on. Want to know about Hilary and her work, keep readin'! . Dr. Hilary Mawia is a believer, wife, Pediatrician, and alumni of Southwestern College who was born and raised in Yangon, Myanmar. She moved to Winfield at age 18 to attend Southwestern where she majored in Biology. . After graduating, she studied medicine at Ben Gurion University, Medical School for International Health in Beer Sheva, Israel where she met her now-husband, Jenya Shavkov while volunteering at a Messianic Jewish Church. Upon graduating from medical school, she moved to New York City to pursue her residency training in Pediatrics at Harlem Hospital, New York.   . After residency, as a new wife, she felt God directing her to return to Israel to support her husband while he finished his studies in Architecture. Currently, Hilary is preparing to start her fellowship in Neonatal Intensive Care at Soroka Hospital in Israel and loving her life as a housewife to her husband, Jenya and dog-mom to their Shar-pei-Pitbull mix, Macho.

Alex Brook Lynn of FAQ.NYC interviews Sarah Dowd, a nurse at Harlem Hospital, about what healthcare workers need to pull us through this crisis. As the world watches tired healthcare workers beg for supplies on social media, Sarah Dowd, a nurse at Harlem Hospital, doesn't want to see their troubles become an accepted “horrific sob story,” Sarah wants a "counter narrative," a narrative in which our elected officials “get things done.” On Monday April 6th, Sarah and her fellow healthcare workers, along with the New York Nurses Association, will issue a list of demands to Dr. Mitchell Katz, President and CEO of Health + Hospitals, Governor Cuomo, and President Trump.

Dr. Orajiaka shares how you can overcome the fear of being an "old grad" as an IMG by using your mindset. She is an American board certified Pediatrician with love for Emergency Medicine and is rocking the ER life in a pretty busy children's Emergency room in Ohio. She prides herself in being a wife and mother of 3 wonderful kids. Dr. Orajiaka grew up in Nigeria and completed medical school there. She fell in love with New York City when she moved to the US for a few years to obtain a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University New York. After obtaining her MPH degree she then moved back to Nigeria, worked on her portfolio and ultimately returned to New York city for Pediatrics Residency at the Columbia University Medical Center affiliation at Harlem Hospital. Besides being an outstanding physician in the peds ED, she is a blogger on https://drnkeiru.com/ and a health educator on Instagram where you can fine her at @dr_norajiaka. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ninalum/support

Carlina White was stolen from a Harlem Hospital in 1987.

In this episode of Time Out With Terra we dive into PTSD with Dr. Judith Fiona Joseph. We discuss what PTSD is, some of the side affects, medication for PTSD, and so much more!  Dr. Judith is a medical media consultant and has worked with various media outlets with national television appearances on shows such as The Dr. Oz Show, The Mel Robbins Show and CBS news. She has worked on award winning online series with MedCircle and National podcasts with Crimeonline, Nancy Grace, Friends Like Us and Comedy Cellar.  She has written for NewsWeek, Romper.com (http://romper.com/) , Parents.com (http://parents.com/) , DJBooth.com (http://djbooth.com/) , PsychiatryOnline, PsychNews and Dr.Oz.com (http://dr.oz.com/) .  She teaches medical media courses to physicians and medical students at Columbia University, New York University and Harlem Hospital. Dr. Judith's Website: JudithJosephMD.com (http://judithjosephmd.com) Instagram: @DrJudithJoseph (https://www.instagram.com/drjudithjoseph/?hl=en)

Featuring the talents of Bill Gunn (Ganja & Hess), Vertamae Grosvenor (Daughters of the Dust), Ishmael Reed, and many others, Personal Problems was originally intended as “an experimental soap opera” for WNET, the public broadcast station in New York. It never aired and was thought lost for many years, but the film has been newly restored by Kino Lorber and will be traveling theatrically soon, beginning with a run at Metrograph. Written by Ishmael Reed and shot in 1979, Personal Problems stars Vertamae Grosvenor as Johnnie Mae, a nurse's aide at Harlem Hospital who's having an affair behind the back of her uptight transit worker husband Charles (Walter Cotton). In the March/April 2018 issue, Howard Hampton writes about this incredible work, a “motion picture [that] is inventing its language as it goes along—a series of building blocks of different shapes, tones, and materials creating a homemade Cubist mosaic. Personal Problems balances hands-on and hands-off approaches.” Tobi Haslett, contributor to N+1, 4Columns, and The New Yorker, speaks with FC Digital Producer Violet Lucca about this distinctive work.

Listen to Harlem legend, Harlem's Goldie Brangman, as she talks Dr. Marting Luther King Jr stabbing in Harlem and more, with host Danny Tisdale, on The Danny Tisdale Show.As part of Black History Month listen to 94-year-old Harlem Hospital nurse Goldie Brangman and writer Evan Koch as they talk Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr stabbing in Harlem.Ms. Brangman give her first hand account of the lifesaving surgery on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., after he was stabbed by a mentally unstable woman Izola Ware Curry in Harlem, as he autographed copies of his first book in September 1958 in conversation today's show was taped live with Danny Tisdale on Harlem World Radio. SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: www.youtube.com/harlemworldmagazine.comwww.facebook.com/harlemworldmagazine.comwww.harlemworldmagazine.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/theharlemworldmagazinepodcast)

Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Today, I want us to take some time to reflect on what Dr. King really stood for. The American education system and the media only focus on the I Have a Dream speech given on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, but that message was not the entirety of Dr. King's message. The speech we will hear today and which is transcribed below was actually the last that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered in his life. It was given in Tennessee, supporting the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike the day before his assassination. The audience is much different from the millions who were listening to I Have a Dream in 1963, and the message is much more specific and directed to the Black Community as well. I hope this touches, motivates, and invigorates your spirit as deeply as it did mine. Thank you for sharing this moment with me. God bless. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Memphis, TN - April 3, 1968 [Text transcribed directly from audio] Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. It's always good to have your closest friend and associate to say something good about you. And Ralph Abernathy is the best friend that I have in the world. I'm delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow. Something is happening in Memphis; something is happening in our world. And you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of taking a kind of general and panoramic view of the whole of human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?" I would take my mental flight by Egypt and I would watch God's children in their magnificent trek from the dark dungeons of Egypt through, or rather across the Red Sea, through the wilderness on toward the promised land. And in spite of its magnificence, I wouldn't stop there. I would move on by Greece and take my mind to Mount Olympus. And I would see Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides and Aristophanes assembled around the Parthenon. And I would watch them around the Parthenon as they discussed the great and eternal issues of reality. But I wouldn't stop there. I would go on, even to the great heyday of the Roman Empire. And I would see developments around there, through various emperors and leaders. But I wouldn't stop there. I would even come up to the day of the Renaissance, and get a quick picture of all that the Renaissance did for the cultural and aesthetic life of man. But I wouldn't stop there. I would even go by the way that the man for whom I am named had his habitat. And I would watch Martin Luther as he tacked his Ninety-five Theses on the door at the Church of Wittenberg. But I wouldn't stop there. I would come on up even to 1863, and watch a vacillating President by the name of Abraham Lincoln finally come to the conclusion that he had to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. But I wouldn't stop there. I would even come up to the early thirties, and see a man grappling with the problems of the bankruptcy of his nation. And come with an eloquent cry that We Have Nothing to Fear but "Fear Itself." But I wouldn't stop there. Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th century, I will be happy." Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee -- the cry is always the same: "We want to be free." And another reason that I'm happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demands didn't force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today. And also in the human rights revolution, if something isn't done, and done in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed. Now, I'm just happy that God has allowed me to live in this period to see what is unfolding. And I'm happy that He's allowed me to be in Memphis. I can remember -- I can remember when Negroes were just going around as Ralph has said, so often, scratching where they didn't itch, and laughing when they were not tickled. But that day is all over. We mean business now, and we are determined to gain our rightful place in God's world. And that's all this whole thing is about. We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying -- We are saying that we are God's children. And that we are God's children, we don't have to live like we are forced to live. Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now let us maintain unity. Secondly, let us keep the issues where they are. The issue is injustice. The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation workers. Now, we've got to keep attention on that. That's always the problem with a little violence. You know what happened the other day, and the press dealt only with the window-breaking. I read the articles. They very seldom got around to mentioning the fact that one thousand, three hundred sanitation workers are on strike, and that Memphis is not being fair to them, and that Mayor Loeb is in dire need of a doctor. They didn't get around to that. Now we're going to march again, and we've got to march again, in order to put the issue where it is supposed to be -- and force everybody to see that there are thirteen hundred of God's children here suffering, sometimes going hungry, going through dark and dreary nights wondering how this thing is going to come out. That's the issue. And we've got to say to the nation: We know how it's coming out. For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory. We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do. I've seen them so often. I remember in Birmingham, Alabama, when we were in that majestic struggle there, we would move out of the 16th Street Baptist Church day after day; by the hundreds we would move out. And Bull Connor would tell them to send the dogs forth, and they did come; but we just went before the dogs singing, "Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around." Bull Connor next would say, "Turn the fire hoses on." And as I said to you the other night, Bull Connor didn't know history. He knew a kind of physics that somehow didn't relate to the transphysics that we knew about. And that was the fact that there was a certain kind of fire that no water could put out. And we went before the fire hoses; we had known water. If we were Baptist or some other denominations, we had been immersed. If we were Methodist, and some others, we had been sprinkled, but we knew water. That couldn't stop us. And we just went on before the dogs and we would look at them; and we'd go on before the water hoses and we would look at it, and we'd just go on singing "Over my head I see freedom in the air." And then we would be thrown in the paddy wagons, and sometimes we were stacked in there like sardines in a can. And they would throw us in, and old Bull would say, "Take 'em off," and they did; and we would just go in the paddy wagon singing, "We Shall Overcome." And every now and then we'd get in jail, and we'd see the jailers looking through the windows being moved by our prayers, and being moved by our words and our songs. And there was a power there which Bull Connor couldn't adjust to; and so we ended up transforming Bull into a steer, and we won our struggle in Birmingham. Now we've got to go on in Memphis just like that. I call upon you to be with us when we go out Monday. Now about injunctions: We have an injunction and we're going into court tomorrow morning to fight this illegal, unconstitutional injunction. All we say to America is, "Be true to what you said on paper." If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn't committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right. And so just as I say, we aren't going to let dogs or water hoses turn us around, we aren't going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on. We need all of you. And you know what's beautiful to me is to see all of these Ministers of the Gospel. It's a marvelous picture. Who is it that is supposed to articulate the longings and aspirations of the people more than the preacher? Somehow the preacher must have a kind of fire shut up in his bones. And whenever injustice is around he tell it. Somehow the preacher must be an Amos, and saith, "When God speaks who can but prophesy?" Again with Amos, "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." Somehow the preacher must say with Jesus, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me," and he's anointed me to deal with the problems of the poor." And I want to commend the preachers, under the leadership of these noble men: James Lawson, one who has been in this struggle for many years; he's been to jail for struggling; he's been kicked out of Vanderbilt University for this struggle, but he's still going on, fighting for the rights of his people. Reverend Ralph Jackson, Billy Kiles; I could just go right on down the list, but time will not permit. But I want to thank all of them. And I want you to thank them, because so often, preachers aren't concerned about anything but themselves. And I'm always happy to see a relevant ministry. It's all right to talk about "long white robes over yonder," in all of its symbolism. But ultimately people want some suits and dresses and shoes to wear down here! It's all right to talk about "streets flowing with milk and honey," but God has commanded us to be concerned about the slums down here, and his children who can't eat three square meals a day. It's all right to talk about the new Jerusalem, but one day, God's preacher must talk about the new New York, the new Atlanta, the new Philadelphia, the new Los Angeles, the new Memphis, Tennessee. This is what we have to do. Now the other thing we'll have to do is this: Always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal. Now, we are poor people. Individually, we are poor when you compare us with white society in America. We are poor. Never stop and forget that collectively -- that means all of us together -- collectively we are richer than all the nations in the world, with the exception of nine. Did you ever think about that? After you leave the United States, Soviet Russia, Great Britain, West Germany, France, and I could name the others, the American Negro collectively is richer than most nations of the world. We have an annual income of more than thirty billion dollars a year, which is more than all of the exports of the United States, and more than the national budget of Canada. Did you know that? That's power right there, if we know how to pool it. We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks and bottles. We don't need any Molotov cocktails. We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, "God sent us by here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right. And we've come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment, where God's children are concerned. Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you." And so, as a result of this, we are asking you tonight, to go out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis. Go by and tell them not to buy Sealtest milk. Tell them not to buy -- what is the other bread? -- Wonder Bread. And what is the other bread company, Jesse? Tell them not to buy Hart's bread. As Jesse Jackson has said, up to now, only the garbage men have been feeling pain; now we must kind of redistribute the pain. We are choosing these companies because they haven't been fair in their hiring policies; and we are choosing them because they can begin the process of saying they are going to support the needs and the rights of these men who are on strike. And then they can move on town -- downtown and tell Mayor Loeb to do what is right. But not only that, we've got to strengthen black institutions. I call upon you to take your money out of the banks downtown and deposit your money in Tri-State Bank. We want a "bank-in" movement in Memphis. Go by the savings and loan association. I'm not asking you something that we don't do ourselves at SCLC. Judge Hooks and others will tell you that we have an account here in the savings and loan association from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. We are telling you to follow what we are doing. Put your money there. You have six or seven black insurance companies here in the city of Memphis. Take out your insurance there. We want to have an "insurance-in." Now these are some practical things that we can do. We begin the process of building a greater economic base. And at the same time, we are putting pressure where it really hurts. I ask you to follow through here. Now, let me say as I move to my conclusion that we've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point in Memphis. We've got to see it through. And when we have our march, you need to be there. If it means leaving work, if it means leaving school -- be there. Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together. Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. One day a man came to Jesus, and he wanted to raise some questions about some vital matters of life. At points he wanted to trick Jesus, and show him that he knew a little more than Jesus knew and throw him off base.... Now that question could have easily ended up in a philosophical and theological debate. But Jesus immediately pulled that question from mid-air, and placed it on a dangerous curve between Jerusalem and Jericho. And he talked about a certain man, who fell among thieves. You remember that a Levite and a priest passed by on the other side. They didn't stop to help him. And finally a man of another race came by. He got down from his beast, decided not to be compassionate by proxy. But he got down with him, administered first aid, and helped the man in need. Jesus ended up saying, this was the good man, this was the great man, because he had the capacity to project the "I" into the "thou," and to be concerned about his brother. Now you know, we use our imagination a great deal to try to determine why the priest and the Levite didn't stop. At times we say they were busy going to a church meeting, an ecclesiastical gathering, and they had to get on down to Jerusalem so they wouldn't be late for their meeting. At other times we would speculate that there was a religious law that "One who was engaged in religious ceremonials was not to touch a human body twenty-four hours before the ceremony." And every now and then we begin to wonder whether maybe they were not going down to Jerusalem -- or down to Jericho, rather to organize a "Jericho Road Improvement Association." That's a possibility. Maybe they felt that it was better to deal with the problem from the causal root, rather than to get bogged down with an individual effect. But I'm going to tell you what my imagination tells me. It's possible that those men were afraid. You see, the Jericho road is a dangerous road. I remember when Mrs. King and I were first in Jerusalem. We rented a car and drove from Jerusalem down to Jericho. And as soon as we got on that road, I said to my wife, "I can see why Jesus used this as the setting for his parable." It's a winding, meandering road. It's really conducive for ambushing. You start out in Jerusalem, which is about 1200 miles -- or rather 1200 feet above sea level. And by the time you get down to Jericho, fifteen or twenty minutes later, you're about 2200 feet below sea level. That's a dangerous road. In the days of Jesus it came to be known as the "Bloody Pass." And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it's possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the priest asked -- the first question that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" That's the question before you tonight. Not, "If I stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to my job. Not, "If I stop to help the sanitation workers what will happen to all of the hours that I usually spend in my office every day and every week as a pastor?" The question is not, "If I stop to help this man in need, what will happen to me?" The question is, "If I do not stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them?" That's the question. Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation. And I want to thank God, once more, for allowing me to be here with you. You know, several years ago, I was in New York City autographing the first book that I had written. And while sitting there autographing books, a demented black woman came up. The only question I heard from her was, "Are you Martin Luther King?" And I was looking down writing, and I said, "Yes." And the next minute I felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it I had been stabbed by this demented woman. I was rushed to Harlem Hospital. It was a dark Saturday afternoon. And that blade had gone through, and the X-rays revealed that the tip of the blade was on the edge of my aorta, the main artery. And once that's punctured, your drowned in your own blood -- that's the end of you. It came out in the New York Times the next morning, that if I had merely sneezed, I would have died. Well, about four days later, they allowed me, after the operation, after my chest had been opened, and the blade had been taken out, to move around in the wheel chair in the hospital. They allowed me to read some of the mail that came in, and from all over the states and the world, kind letters came in. I read a few, but one of them I will never forget. I had received one from the President and the Vice-President. I've forgotten what those telegrams said. I'd received a visit and a letter from the Governor of New York, but I've forgotten what that letter said. But there was another letter that came from a little girl, a young girl who was a student at the White Plains High School. And I looked at that letter, and I'll never forget it. It said simply, "Dear Dr. King, I am a ninth-grade student at the White Plains High School." And she said, "While it should not matter, I would like to mention that I'm a white girl. I read in the paper of your misfortune, and of your suffering. And I read that if you had sneezed, you would have died. And I'm simply writing you to say that I'm so happy that you didn't sneeze." And I want to say tonight -- I want to say tonight that I too am happy that I didn't sneeze. Because if I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1960, when students all over the South started sitting-in at lunch counters. And I knew that as they were sitting in, they were really standing up for the best in the American dream, and taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1961, when we decided to take a ride for freedom and ended segregation in inter-state travel. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1962, when Negroes in Albany, Georgia, decided to straighten their backs up. And whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent. If I had sneezed -- If I had sneezed I wouldn't have been here in 1963, when the black people of Birmingham, Alabama, aroused the conscience of this nation, and brought into being the Civil Rights Bill. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have had a chance later that year, in August, to try to tell America about a dream that I had had. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been down in Selma, Alabama, to see the great Movement there. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been in Memphis to see a community rally around those brothers and sisters who are suffering. I'm so happy that I didn't sneeze. And they were telling me --. Now, it doesn't matter, now. It really doesn't matter what happens now. I left Atlanta this morning, and as we got started on the plane, there were six of us. The pilot said over the public address system, "We are sorry for the delay, but we have Dr. Martin Luther King on the plane. And to be sure that all of the bags were checked, and to be sure that nothing would be wrong with on the plane, we had to check out everything carefully. And we've had the plane protected and guarded all night." And then I got into Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers? Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land! And so I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man! Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!

Dr. Dunson completed his undergraduate studies with a degree in biology in 1987. After, he entered the dental program at the University of Southern California (USC), where he received a Doctorate in Dental Surgery (DDS) in 1991. He then attended Columbia University’s general dentistry residency program at Harlem Hospital in New York. After completing the residency, Dr. Dunson returned to Georgia, and in 1992, he began practicing as an associate in Atlanta. At the same time, he served as a resident at Loma Linda University (LLU) in California, receiving his graduate certificate from in oral implantology in 1997. He also has an IV and oral conscious sedation certificate from Miami Valley Medical College in Dayton, Ohio, making him one of the select few restorative dentists in Georgia who are certified and licensed to do IV sedation. Dr. Dunson started his own practice as a general, restorative and cosmetic dentist in Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1996. Dr. Dunson remains actively interested in the latest developments in his discipline and is involved in the following:  Private Practice, Atlanta Georgia.  Diplomate, The American Board of Implantology, Implant Dentistry.  Honored Fellow, American Academy of Implant Dentistry.  National Secretary, American Academy Of Implant Dentistry  Chairman, AAID Foundation  National Advisory Board, Smile Source  Founder & Director, The Atlanta Academy for Reconstructive Dentistry  Dr. Adam Kimowitz is a Lecturer at Rutgers School of Dental medicine, where he is also the President elect of the Alumni Association. Dr. Kimowitz also frequently lectures on the topics of Implant Surgery and Prosthetics, 3D Diagnostic Imaging, and CAD/CAM dentistry. Dr. Kimowitz is the founder and president of the Grassroots Dental Study Club, an educational and philanthropic organization dedicated to the advancement of the profession of dentistry through education and charity.  Dr Adam Kimowitz is an active member of the American Dental Assocation, Academy of General Dentistry, AAID, ICOI, Academy of Cad/Cam Dentistry, and has is the President Elect of the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine Alumni. His peers have also recognized Dr. Adam Kimowitz as an Expert by being voted a NJ Top Dentist in the field of implant and cosmetic dentistry.  https://www.aaidmaxicourse.com/maxicourse/washington-dc-mid-atlantic-maxicourse/   

Dr.June Jackson Christmas, a psychiatrist, was the first African-American womanappointed Commissioner of the New York City Department Health and MentalRetardation Services by Mayor Lindsay in 1972. She was re-appointed by MayorsBeame and Koch, and sat on the Board of the Health and Hospitals Corporation,the city agency that operates Municipal Hospitals and neighborhood family carecenters.   Inthis podcast, Dr. Christmas discusses the symbolic importance of Sydenham Hospitalas the first integrated not-for-profit hospital in the city to the blackcommunity in Harlem. Dr. Christmas was forced to support the controversial closingof the hospital in 1980 saying “I had orders to support the closing becausethat was the city policy.” However, she offered alternatives for the hospital’sfuture that were rejected.   Openedin 1925 as a private hospital, Sydenham was the only place black doctors hadadmitting privileges. By the time Sydenham was taken over by the city in 1949, whenit went into bankruptcy, black doctors were slowly able to admit patients inmore hospitals across the city.   Duringthe 1970s New York City fiscal crisis, Sydenham was one of the four hospitals designatedto close in order to save the newer hospitals in the Health and HospitalsCorporation system. New York State cited Sydenham, high maintenance costs and itsdifficulty complying with newer hospital codes. Protestorsopposed the closing of Sydenham citing a public health concern that the nearesthospital, Harlem Hospital was 12 blocks away and often operated at full capacity.Much opposition came from union members over the loss of jobs, although anagreement between the City and Federal Government stipulated that workers wouldbe moved to other health facilities across the city. Todaythe former Sydenham hospital is a 10- story building housing the elderly andhandicapped. Mayor Koch has since admitted that he was wrong to close thehospital and failed to see the symbolism for the Harlem community.

For the complete Harlem Walking Tour, including the map and images, please visit http://MoMA.org/HarlemWalkingTour

For the complete Harlem Walking Tour, including the map and images, please visit http://MoMA.org/HarlemWalkingTour

  Taboo Talk, a Christian talk show featuring Lady Charmaine Day (Pastor, Publisher, Author and Motivational Speaker  www.ladycharmaineday.com). Taboo Talk helps individuals transform their mind, body, and spirit utilizing the principles of Jesus Christ! Guest starring Dr. Sydney Hankerson. Dr. Sidney Hankerson is an adult psychiatrist who works at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. His work focuses on increasing access to mental health treatment for African Americans. During his psychiatric residency, he mainly worked at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Grady is a large, community hospital that serves patients who have no insurance and in that respect, it is very similar to Harlem Hospital in Manhattan. While at Grady, he was heartbroken by the many barriers that prevented African Americans from seeking mental health treatment. These barriers included ideas of shame about mental illness, lack of education about different treatments, and mistrust of medical providers. Dr. Hankerson is now using African American churches and mosques as places to promote education, screening, and, ultimately, to provide depression treatment. He hopes to build bridges between mental health professionals, faith-based organizations, and other community-based organizations. For more information please visit www.bpgny.org, www.nami.org or call 1-800-LIFENET

We often dismiss that are moods are just that, not considering that there may be more to it. Join us as we talk about How do recognize, cope and heal from depression with Dr. Janet Taylor. Dr. Taylor will also be a guest panelist on Friday, November 16th in Brooklyn, NY at St. Paul's Baptist Church for the launch of Code Blue. A community campaign created by Fathers Incorprated to address the issue of Mental Health and Depressing in Black Men and their Families.   Dr. Janet Taylor is the Director of the Guest Support Team for “The Jeremy Kyle Show.” She’s a Community Psychiatrist in New York City, the Bronx and Queens and a Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry at Harlem Hospital. Dr. Taylor attended the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky for Undergraduate and Medical School and had a internship in Internal Medicine at the Miriam Hospital-Brown University.  Her psychiatric residency was completed at New York Medical College-Westchester Medical Center. She received a Master’s of Public Health in Health Promotion/Disease Prevention from Columbia University and was a recipient of the 2008 Woman in Medicine Award (National Medical Association- Council of Women’s Concerns).   She is a frequently invited speaker on the subjects of Minority Health, Stress Management, Parenting and Work-Life Balance. She is a frequent contributor to the CBS “The Early Show,” and NBC “TODAY” show on issues of motherhood and parenting. Dr. Taylor is also regularly featured on CNN, MSNBC and ABC.com‘s regular webcast, “Moms Get Real.”