A glimpse into my ten-year career as a professional journalist

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A glimpse into my ten-year career as a professional journalist ~

Research Reports

New America: A Glimpse of Stability: The Impact of Pandemic Aid on Families in Poverty

New America: The U.S. Black Maternal and Child Health Crisis Is Centuries in the Making

New America: Eviction Is One Of The Biggest Health Risks Facing Black Children

Features

PopSci: How to use the power of mushrooms to improve your life

Vox: The medical system has failed Black Americans for centuries. Could reparations be the answer?

Vox: The FDA made mail-order abortion pills legal. Access is still a nightmare.

538: How My Fitness Tracker Turned Me Against Myself

Slate: The Miles to the Grocery Store Got Longer This Year

Slate: It’s Not Too Late to Save Black Lives

HuffPost: Even Breathing Is A Risk In One Of Orlando's Poorest Neighborhoods

HuffPost: Andrew Gillum Is At Home With His Blackness

Articles

PopSci: How does science explain déjà vu? It’s a brain glitch with a purpose.

Gloria: Why Aren’t More Women Taking This Supplement?

The Cut: How to Safely Skip Your Period

The Cut: Don’t Trust DIY Abortion Advice on TikTok

Popula: Sick and Alone

Slate: The Government Has Enabled Our Risky Pandemic Decisions

Slate: Black Doctors Explain How to Overcome Reluctance Toward the COVID Vaccine

Commentary

New America: Understanding the Impact of Supreme Court Rulings on Reproductive Rights

New America: On the Connection Between Care Policy and Wellness

The Washington Post: The stories of these children will change the way you think about poverty

Slate: High on the Hog Tastes Like Life

Slate: In Praise of Vulnerable Black Women

Slate: So, I Tried One of Peloton’s Anti-Racist Classes

Written Interviews

Vox: What wellness means for Black women (with DeJa Love, CEO of the Black Women’s Wellness Agency)

New America: Ali & Pat

New America: A Year After Dobbs (with researchers Jackie Jahn and Alina Schnake-Mahl and Better Life Lab Senior Fellow Vicki Shabo)

Slate: How Racial Health Disparities Will Play Out in the Pandemic (with Dr. Uche Blackstock, a physician, thought leader, and sought-after speaker on bias and racism in medicine)

On Camera

Featuring Dr. Charis Chambers, who discusses the reproduction health and justice issues Black women face.

Featuring Dr. Uche Blackstock on COVID-19 one year later.

Featuring LaTosha Brown, the co-founder of Black Voters Matter, on the power of the Black Southern electorate. 

Featuring Maurice Mitchell, national director for the Working Families Party, who breaks down voter intimidation and misinformation.

Featuring Jamelle Bouie on how the 2020 electoral politics impacted history.