Akilah Johnson
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Now: @washingtonpost health & science Then: @propublica DC @JSKstanford @BostonGlobe @SunSentinel. Always: Telling untold stories. she/her 💙🐩💛
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21-09-2008 14:10:09
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Rick Berke The Washington Post STAT Agree with your view on stories hidden in plain sight, like the Post's awesome life expectancy series. The WSJ lead legacy story is terrific, too -- thanks for surfacing such good stuff. cc: FrancesSteadSellers Joel Achenbach Akilah Johnson Laurie McGinley
Black women are “more likely to experience the discrimination and disrespect that contribute to maternal deaths,” from @WashingtonPost's Akilah Johnson, making ACHP's The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute-funded work addressing how toxic stress impacts Black maternal health more urgent. washingtonpost.com/health/interac…
.Mrs. Dow Jones tells Akilah Johnson, “Financial journeys are different for everyone, but I would say for a majority of people they're living paycheck to paycheck, they have student loans, they have private loans, they don't have emergency funds and they're just looking to get by."
After traumatic pregnancies, Mimi Bingham needed another way. Then she discovered a coalition of Black birth workers who forever changed her life. Akilah Johnson on the story of Mimi & the birth workers fighting a nationwide maternal health emergency🎧⬇️ washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-…
In honor of #BlackMaternalHealthWeek, check out this beautiful photographic essay on Black birth workers and moms by Akilah Johnson and jahi chikwendiu from last year in the The Washington Post. washingtonpost.com/photography/in…
In communities of color, long-covid patients are tired of being sick and neglected. It's been 4 yrs since covid-19 infections began burdening ppl w/ lingering symptoms and who are often dismissed by medical providers. Akilah Johnson washingtonpost.com/health/2024/05…
In communities of color, long-covid patients are tired of being sick and neglected. Report by Akilah Johnson The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/health/2024/05…
In communities of color, long-covid patients are tired of being sick and neglected wapo.st/3wSGcYO Providence Akilah Johnson The Washington Post
In communities of color, #LongCOVID patients are tired of being sick and neglected. It's been four years since coronavirus infections began burdening people with symptoms often dismissed by medical providers, by Akilah Johnson washingtonpost.com/health/2024/05… via The Washington Post #COVID19
Long covid has been especially difficult for people of color who already face discrimination in health care, from their pain being dismissed to language barriers. My colleague Akilah Johnson has an in-depth examination of this public health issue wapo.st/3wSGcYO
Why does our sports world remain so divided? The question stays on my mind. For the past 3 1/2 months, I've searched for an answer. It led me to write a series of essays called the Grievance Games. This is Part 1: How grievance splintered American sports. washingtonpost.com/sports/interac…
I am looking forward to reading this series by Jerry Brewer
I'm scheduled to be on CNN late tonight (8:45 PT/11:45 ET) with Laura Coates to talk about the Grievance Games. Looking forward to talking about sports and society. ICYMI the first installment of the series, you can read it here: washingtonpost.com/sports/interac…
Part 3 of Grievance Games illustrates the concept of this series in action. It takes you inside the most contentious battle in American sports right now: transgender participation in women's sports. When happens when the right to play starts to go away? washingtonpost.com/sports/interac…
Tens of thousands of disabled people in the US are paid less than the minimum wage — w some making as little as 25 cents/ hour. Our 9 month, 3 part investigation into an obscure provision of the FLSA, w the great Amanda ‘science fan girl’ Morris (she/her) 🤟🏻🌵 & Caitlin Gilbert: washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/…