Ariel Cobbert

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“Cameras gave to black folks, irrespective of our class, a means by which we could participate fully in the production of images.” Art on My Mind: Visual Politics. The New Press, 1995, p. 57What began as a small project to digitize my family’s archive as a favor — while peering into the records of ordinary Black life in South Mississippi — quickly became something else. It was a reckoning with my sense of self.

Aug 27, 2024 | columbiamissourian.com | Ariel Cobbert

Many rural hospitals have closed in the last decade in the United States and a recent report from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform says about 700 more are at risk of shuttering. Rural residents are more likely to die earlier than urban residents from things like heart disease, cancer and stroke.

Aug 20, 2024 | argus-press.com | Ariel Cobbert

Mayor William D. Rawls Jr., the first Black mayor of Brownsville, Tenn., sits for a portrait on July 10, 2024, in the lobby of the Rawls Funeral Home, founded by his grandfather. Elected to office in 2014, he started the Healthy Moves Initiative, a health education and preventive care effort.

Aug 20, 2024 | argus-press.com | Ariel Cobbert

Alma Jean Carney-Thomas, a local historian, civil rights activist, and entrepreneur who brought the first health clinic to Haywood County, stands for a portrait at the Dunbar Carver Museum in Brownsville, Tenn., on July 10, 2024. As a kid, she witnessed her grandmother lying in a hospital bed in the basement of the Haywood County Memorial Hospital, built in 1930 during Jim Crow.

Aug 19, 2024 | phillytrib.com | Ariel Cobbert

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