Maria Smilios
Contributor at Penguin Random House (US)
Author The Black Angels Winner 2024 Christopher Award Adjunct Columbia University SPH @penguinrandom @viragobooks
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Oct 7, 2024 |
msn.com | Maria Smilios
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Oct 7, 2024 |
newsweek.com | Maria Smilios
It happened again. On Thursday night, September 26, as Hurricane Helene was slamming into the Florida coast, social media feeds began filling with keyboard warriors victim-shaming those who didn't evacuate.
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Jun 19, 2024 |
thestoryexchange.org | Maria Smilios
The exodus of white nurses began in spring 1929, months before the stock market crash. Without warning, they hung up their uniforms and walked out of Sea View Hospital, New York’s largest municipal sanatorium. Their reasons for leaving varied. Some blamed the 14-hour shifts and five-hour round-trip commute from Manhattan to Staten Island, where the hospital was located.
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May 14, 2024 |
harvardpublichealth.org | Maria Smilios
The exodus of White nurses began in spring 1929, months before the stock market crash. Without warning, they hung up their uniforms and walked out of Sea View Hospital, New York’s largest municipal sanatorium. Their reasons for leaving varied. Some blamed the 14-hour shifts and five-hour round-trip commute from Manhattan to Staten Island, where the hospital was located.
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May 9, 2024 |
myemail-api.constantcontact.com | Maria Smilios
Day FourThe Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria SmiliosIn the early 20th century, TB stirred people’s darkest fears, killing one in seven. White nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting en masse. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials recruited Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay and career.
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