Health & Wealth
Health & Wealth
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The Health of Our Communities Begins With Black Women: Planned Parenthoodâs Alexis McGill Johnson, Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, and EHE Health's Joy Altimare Join The Root Institute
If this August has confirmed nothing else, itâs that where women gather, there is power; power often underestimated and underutilized, but capable of transforming the world. We saw it 100 years ago this week with the passage of the 19th Amendment, which enabled (white) women to vote after a decades-long suffrage movement. Forty-five years later,…
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It's Time to Have a Crucial Conversation About Our Communal Health With Planned Parenthoodâs Alexis McGill Johnson, EHE Health's Joy Altimare and Dr. Joia Crear-Perry
âIf you want to feed a person, you pay a man,â says Joy Altimare of EHE Health, one the sponsors of our first-ever Root Institute. âBut if you want to feed a village or a community, you make sure a woman is actually enabled to take care of herself and her children.â The direct links…
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'We Have Got to Make Sure We Are Flexing, Showing Our Power': Cory Booker Gets Political About Wealth Building in a Crisis at The Root Institute
For Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) our economic plight is a political issue. With us living in a time where âit is harder to build wealth in this generation [than] in the pastâ Booker, during an interview with The Root Institute, added that we have to put pressure on our government and politicians to implement laws…
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'We Don't Talk About This at Home': Taraji P. Henson Gets Real About Our Mental Health at The Root Institute
In 2005, I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder while staying at UCLAâs medical center in Los Angeles for several weeks over Christmas. Back then, to me, the severity of my diagnosis was already scary, but what was even scarier? Feeling I was alone. âWe donât talk about this at home,â said actress Taraji P. Henson…
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Taraji P. Henson Talks Mental Health, While Cory Booker Takes on the Health of Our Finances at The Root Institute
Itâs week three of The Root Institute, meaning itâs time to talk about the health of our minds and our finances featuring actress Taraji P. Henson and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). Both are joining me, The Rootâs Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton, for separate chats on issues crucial to our communityâfrom erasing the stigma of mental illness…