Monthly Archives: September 2024
An aid group, mainly, for African immigrants
By Henry Fernandez Planes, buses and blistered feet. Those modes of transit brought two dozen West African immigrants to the United States and, then, one June day to Afrikana, a Harlem nonprofit that helps immigrants build their American lives. Afrikana’s waiting room is where Sweet Mama’s Soul Food used to be. Those looking for help […]
Riffing Bruno to rein in physician burnout
By Shemar Forbes A group of medical students dance, sing and rap their way through hallways, operating rooms and elsewhere inside Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Practice harm reduction … Choice in reproduction … It’s people not patients we treat … Future docs, we all see. We must grant patient autonomy. Priya Makam […]