Month: August 2018

Health in the Hood

Food insecurity, the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food, is an epidemic that is plaguing the United States and even our very own backyard, Miami. In many of the communities of Miami, residents do not have access to grocery stores and in turn, no access to fresh fruits and vegetables. With this in mind, an innovative non-profit...

It Won’t Get Better Without You and Me

BY Felecia Theune, Ph.D. It’s early Sunday evening and I get caught in the downtown traffic of satisfied Miami Heat fans leaving American Airlines Arena on Biscayne Boulevard after another victory. Panhandlers, some in hand-me-down Heat t-shirts, beg for spare change but are largely ignored, as are a seemingly growing homeless population who make their home along NE 6th Street. A woman who...