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Knock KnockIn this poem by Daniel Beaty, he talks about his life growing up with his father. He tells a story of how he grew up sharing a game with his father, but he eventually got taken into jail. Then, he talks up a father and imagines one.Breaking the Stigma of Mental IllnessPutting faces to Brooklyn’s mental illness statistics, BCS clients offer up their real life stories and struggles with mental diagnosis and ask you to see past the stigma.An Age for Justice: Confronting Elder Abuse in America“An Age for Justice: Elder Abuse in America,” a video produced by the Elder Justice Now campaign, shows the families and individuals whose lives have been turned upside down by elder abuse.HIV and AIDS Anti-Stigma PSAPublished on Jan 16, 2011
HIV and AIDS Anti-Stigma PSA courtesy of the NYS Department of HealthChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single storyOur lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
