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No roof over my head: Silja J.A. Talvi explains how and why people of color now represent the majority of those living homeless in the United States. (Race and Recession).
When Mikala Berbery, an African American woman and single mother, went from earning $21,000 a year to losing her job, her life suddenly plunged into a dangerous abyss of homelessness.
Altogether, Berbery spent two and a half years of her life in the Boston area without a home to call her own, struggling to find shelter for herself and her young son. The seemingly insurmountable challenges she faced trying to climb out of the "hole" of homelessness, explains Berbery, often left her feeling hopeless and despondent over her future.
Yet Berbery was determined not to end up sleeping on the streets and to keep her son in school. She applied for subsidized ...
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- Magazine article from: Journal of the National Medical Association Mahoney, Megan R; Sterkenburg, Cynthia; Thom, David H; Goldschmidt, Ronald H July 1, 2008 700+ words
...patient and provider characteristics of African-American clinicians and non-African-American clinicians who called the National HIV...clinicians, 70 (6.9%) of whom were African American. Compared to the non-African-American...
Source: HighBeam Research, No roof over my head: Silja J.A. Talvi explains how and why people of...