By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A Boston-area pediatrician for nearly 30 years and a pastor for 15, Gloria White-Hammond traveled to Sudan in 2001 as part of a faith-motivated “slave redemption” mission, in which the missionaries purchased the freedom of 6,700 slaves. Though this liberation tactic...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Julius and Wilson create Speaking Books that deliver health information to illiterate individuals about HIV, depression, and other health-related issues, emphasizing prevention.Illiteracy can be a matter of life and death. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When Dwight Tillery was mayor of Cincinnati in the early 1990s, he often attended funerals of residents or visited people who were sick. A few years later, Tillery began reading about health disparities. “When I became aware of the extreme difference between the...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 1995, J. McDonald Williams, then chair of a Texas-based real estate firm, founded the Foundation for Community Empowerment to help revitalize low-income neighborhoods in Dallas. Partnering with community and faith-based organizations and the public sector, the...