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Is it really your baby?
This article discusses the racial effects of wellness checks and the devastation that they pose for black families.
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Balance, Beam and Try Again!
The psychology of the spotlight and the undue expectations that it places on athletes.
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Ladies, How Do You Sing Yourself Praise?
This article encourages women to take the time out to sing themselves praise in small and great things as they are worthy of it, and it is necessary for their health.
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Tennis, Mental Health & Pressers: What Naomi Osaka is Saying.
This article discusses mental health, press conferences and Naomi Osaka's decision to eschew pressers in the upcoming 2021 French Open.
Culture
The Greatest
A review of Sia's music video for The Greatest.
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Mental Health: What Is It and How to Maintain It
This article describes the mind and how it functions in a healthy manner.
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Who Are You?
An article that goes in depth into examining and centralizing American society as a centrist nation and the necessary catalyst for our future survival.
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Mystic Marley, Sad Girls and Self-Image: How Do They Connect?
This article intertwines music and culture to promote empowerment and personal growth.
Career
5 Tips to Support Your Employees’ Wellbeing
This article offers 5 tips for supporting workers during this time, when covid-19 continues to spread in America.
Business
An Explanation of Tears and the Sadness We Experience
This article reflects on the recent passing of DMX, Prince Edward Philip and other household celebrity names.
Business
The Surge of Migrants at the Border
People's basic needs - it's an interesting thing that drives you to do "crazy" things. They said it happened for the last three presidencies, the increase of emigrants to the United States after our presidential inauguration.
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Beating Depression and Sadness Like a Drum
This article gives a personal account of healing from depression through faith.
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Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, & West Indians
We West Indian people are a trip; we are a wild close-knit group with personal and cultural idiosyncrasies that make us the lush tree that we are.
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An Open Letter to Nicki Minaj
Reflections for the hip-hop songstress.
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Tapping Into Strength: A Life With Healthy Boundaries
As a mental heath clinician, I was fascinated by the podcast on NPR One last spring entitled "The Shrink Next Door" (produced by Wondery and Bloomberg) for several reasons. For one, it is an alarming story of betrayal and of a degraded mental judgment on the part of the patient that occurred in this day and age, this century, which is probably the main reason for most of the shock. However, I have to say that most shocking of all was the tepid response to Marty Markowitz' initial conclusive comp
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"Addi A Di Daddy": Reviewing Vybz Kartel's Of Dons & Divas
The illustrious Vybz Kartel a.k.a. Adidja A. Palmer arrived for us in a moment when we needed him most: on Friday, June 26th, 2020, Addi, as he is commonly known, dropped his umpteenth studio album, Of Dons & Divas, a firm, reverent, compilation of bops and tunes to stay your mind, tune your vibes, and key your heart to the venerable things of this world: respect, relationships that you can trust, fortitude, and forward movement.
Culture
A quartet of my morning mourning.
A poem.
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The Moral High Ground: Looting And Why It's Not Just "Stealing"
In the the wake of Mr. George Floyd's brutal murder, the United States of America suddenly had something monumental at the forefront of its dissonant mind. The protests and the unrest that burgeoned across the country, and tellingly, across the world, simply said, "Enough, is enough."
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Discriminated, Disrespected, and Detained: How an Encounter With the NYPD Changed my Life
I was about one month into my dream job as a forensic psychologist in a remand facility for adolescent girls in Brooklyn, New York. Unlike my old job, this one did not offer a parking lot for employees, but I was issued a state parking plaque to use in front of the building when there was space. However, that employee-issued parking plaque was enough illicit the suspicion and disbelief of the NYPD leading to me getting wrongfully arrested and detained for two nights. This experience was not the