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Sep 19, 2024 | 
time.com | Lottie L. Joiner
By Lottie JoinerSeptember 19, 2024 7:02 AM EDTIn 1964, Courtland Cox was among hundreds of college students who traveled to Mississippi to help register Black people to vote, drawing strong opposition from the state's segregationists. The project, known as Freedom Summer, was a turning point in the civil rights movement. Sixty years later, Cox, 83, is working with the NAACP to mobilize 300,000 volunteers to help get out the Black vote ahead of the 2024 Presidential Election.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
veritenews.org | Lottie L. Joiner
Hannah Epstein heard about the Hospitality Health Fair held June 12 at the Fillmore from a friend and said she’d “be a fool to pass up the opportunity for free health services.” The 34-year-old oyster shucker from St. Louis said even though she attended the health fair to get resources on what she described as “female care,” she was impressed with the resources to help sign up for Medicaid. Epstein said the health fair was a smart way to reach people who work in Louisiana’s hospitality sector.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
veritenews.org | Lottie L. Joiner
The Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI) is a non-profit organization created in 1997 to improve the health and well-being of Louisiana residents with a focus on racial justice and health equity. LPHI provides financial resources, expertise, tools and programming for the organization’s partners which include more than 500 different entities ranging from government agencies to community-based health centers to foundations and academic institutions.
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May 9, 2024 | 
thegrio.com | Kay Wicker |ShaCamree Gowdy |Lottie L. Joiner
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May 1, 2024 | 
clutchpoints.com | Lottie L. Joiner |Wynton Jackson
Xavier University of Louisiana and Ochsner Health System are partnering to create the nation's fifth HBCU medical school. The newly-minted Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine will reportedly “mitigate disparities that kill Black people with some diseases two times more often than others,” according to physicians in an article by Lottie L. Joiner of The Grio. The new medical school hopes to boost the number of Black doctors in the United States.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
veritenews.org | Lottie L. Joiner
When artist Douglas Redd and writer/producer Carol Bebelle opened the doors of the Ashè Cultural Arts Center on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard in December 1998, the goal was to create a cultural center for the community that would last longer than they did. “We resisted being called an art center because art derives from culture. The foundation for the human experience is culture,” Bebelle said during the center’s 25th anniversary rooftop gala in October.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
veritenews.org | Lottie L. Joiner
Bridget Curtis, a restaurant hostess in New Orleans, works between 15 and 30 hours a week, not enough to qualify for health insurance from her employer. Curtis was at the Hospitality Health Fair at Champions Square on Wednesday, Nov. 15. The free event offered health services for those in the service industry as well as underinsured and uninsured residents. The health fair was hosted by New Orleans & Co., which partnered with Ochsner and LCMC health systems, 504HealthNet and Verite News.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
veritenews.org | Lottie L. Joiner
According to a 2021 report by the Louisiana Center for Health Equity, there is a 20-year difference of life expectancy based on where you live in the state, your gender and race. Health care professionals, like Dr. Keith Winfrey of the NOELA Community Health Center in New Orleans East, say this disparity can be reduced with access to quality health care, including telehealth options, and life-saving health screenings. Winfrey is the chief medical officer at NOELA.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
veritenews.org | Lottie L. Joiner
Nearly 25 years ago, Jamilah Peters-Muhammad was diagnosed with , an autoimmune disease that causes muscle inflammation and skin rashes. The doctors told her she had six months to a year to live. Peters-Muhammad, who is known as “Mama Jamilah” in the community, leaned on her faith. “I had to give this to the only one who has control over this,” Peters-Muhammad remembered saying to her doctor. “There was no fear. I was barely 50 years-old at the time. I had young children.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
veritenews.org | Lottie L. Joiner
In the fall of 2005, a few months after Hurricane Katrina, Janet Evans, known to many as Nana Sula, felt a lump on her left breast. She was 39. “I thought it was a fibroid tumor. I thought I was drinking too much coffee,” Evans said. In August 2006, nearly a year after she first found the lump, she got a free mammogram at the St. Thomas Health Services Clinic. They told her she needed an ultrasound. After the ultrasound, she was sent to Ochsner Hospital for a needle biopsy.
