By Serena Thompson Bone-crushing pain surges throughout her body. For Tesha Samuels, this is a normal pain. Samuels has sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease affects up to 100,000 people a year, mainly African...
Archive - June 2019
voicesoftomorrow2021Music Therapy Shows Promise With Alzheimer’s Disease
By Jordanne Semper-Scott Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disease that causes memory loss for people ages 65 and older. As an individual ages, they lose the ability to communicate or interact with their caregiver or...
Girls Bear Burden of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
By Maven McGann One of the scariest things that can happen to a sexually active individual is contracting a sexually transmitted disease. This genesis of this fear is that it’s almost impossible to get rid of certain...
Opioids Fuel Crisis in Housing and Health
By Aaron Shields From crowded apartments in downtown Washington, D.C. to spacious mansions of the affluent suburbs surrounding the city, the use of opioids is prevalent everywhere in the Nation’s Capital. It is...
A Gap in the Wards of Washington, D.C
It is no secret that Wards 7 and 8 are the poorest areas in D.C. A lack of resources in Wards 7 and 8 and a vast amount of resources in Wards 1, 2, and 3 create a gap in Washington D.C . According to Mark S. Johnson...
How Teachers Can Help Students Cope With Traumatizing Events
Teachers are already stressed with tests and exams, class sizes and new curriculum, students and parents relationships, but now they have to worry even more about keeping themselves as well as students safe. On...