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Black Health and Wellness

While the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted health disparities in the Black community in recent years, racial inequalities in health and wellness have been an ongoing issue for centuries. Delve into stories that address these injustices and discover the work being done to reclaim power and create spaces of resiliency, healing and vitality.

Olympia Auset of SÜPRMARKT| Still from "Broken Bread"
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Aqeela Sherrills with a fellow community member | Still from "Broken Bread" Watts
Aqeela Sherrills is a Watts native who grew up around street gangs. As an adult, he decided to team up with other community members to build a more peaceful, prosperous Watts. 
Hall Johnson Choir | Courtesy of Shades of L.A. Photo Collection, Los Angeles Public Library ABs10 Gospel
Along with cities such as Chicago and Detroit, Los Angeles has influenced gospel music for decades, but its contributions to gospel are frequently overlooked. Now, that appears to be changing.
Olympia Auset of SÜPRMARKT and Roy | Still from "Broken Bread"
In less than three years SÜPRMARKT, a small company dedicated to bringing fresh, organic produce into food deserts in South L.A. has grown immensely.
Ron Finley walks through his garden. | Still from "Broken Bread"
A fashion designer-turned-community garden activist, Ron Finley is reclaiming the power of the people to garden.
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The ongoing crisis of faith prompted by Ferguson isn't just about the police, or even about racial justice. It's about something much more fundamental than that.
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