It’s 2020. A journalist is heartbroken because her hippie mom doesn’t trust the #COVID19 vaccine, the info put out by the @CDCgov or the media. She asks her mom to record their phone conversations in which they try to understand each other’s sides. Outstanding work, @wingsofapig!
"The Wedge," a new podcast from @spaceship_media and CPR, starts today! Listen now to hear the first chapter of a powerful and courageous story about family, trustworthy information and Covid-19.
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What happens when you love someone but you can’t stand something they believe?
In a new podcast from @spaceship_media and CPR, journalist @wingsofapig and her mom bravely take on family, Covid-19 and more. The Wedge starts Friday.
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"The Wedge," a new podcast from @spaceship_media and CPR, starts today! Listen now to hear the first chapter of a powerful and courageous story about family, trustworthy information and Covid-19.
Apple: buff.ly/3hpPTGi
Spotify: buff.ly/3A60so8
“There are futures of journalism, there are futures of media ecosystems where all folks are thriving … It’s on us now to figure out what are the things we can learn from the past, what are the changes we can make today so that we can create those futures.” @aliciacbell#SXSW
Next time someone tries to tell you the coronavirus only affects older, “weaker” people, please direct them Shaimeek Frazier’s obituary. The photo they used is her graduation photo...from 2019. She was 21, a baby. On her way to nursing school.
116/ Shaimeek Raijeen Frazier went by many names: ShyShee, ShyShy, FlyShy or just Shy. A “fashionista,” according to her mother, Shamika Kearney, Frazier was a “go-getter” who was preparing to attend nursing school.
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"People need tools, tactics and anchors to help them deal with their emotions." -@wingsofapig
Join us to learn about some of these tools. Mental and spiritual health roundtable starting now: letsreimagine.org/74712/ment…@THECITYNY
This event has been such a labor of love and I am so honored to be part of it. Join us tonight and this weekend to honor, celebrate, grieve, and connect.
Our MISSING THEM team has spent the last 8 months collecting stories from New Yorkers who have lost loved ones to COVID-19.
Tonight we celebrate those lives. Join us in two hours for our first MISSING THEM event.
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The event was designed to help create avenues of connection and community to those suffering in isolation from the devastation of the coronavirus. I am very proud of my co-workers @allieginwala & @wingsofapig for taking the lead on planning this. Please join us! 🙏
On Saturday, Dec. 12 more than a dozen families will share a memory or a story to honor the loved ones they lost due to COVID-19. Join us to support and listen to these families and many others who will be sharing about loss and life during COVID.
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1/ We recently launched a new service where we send out updates focused on renting & working in NYC during the pandemic.
Our first worker update went out this week.
So, why might zero unemployment benefits not mean zero unemployment benefits?
Here’s what we found:
Looking forward to chatting about some of what I've learned with @spaceship_media about talking respectfully to people who have different beliefs than my own. Register below!
How can we have tough conversations about politics and other current events while keeping it civil?
Join the Mediactive team and dialogue journalism experts @spaceship_media for a Q&A on Tuesday at 1 p.m. PT.
Register here: asu.zoom.us/meeting/register…
I've had the pleasure to spend the last month at @THECITYNY working as a Fellow for their Open Newsroom project. This is what we're up for the next two weeks.
thecity.nyc/2020/7/8/2131794…
1/ On June 7, 2019, Layleen Polanco, a 27-year old transgender woman, died on Rikers Island after an epileptic seizure on her ninth day in solitary confinement.
She was being held on $500 bail.
1/ 🚨 New York’s 2020 primary elections are on June 23 🚨
Here’s what you need to know in order to be prepared for the city’s first election in the coronavirus era.