Volunteer organizations gather to lead training seminar on helping refugees
Rachel Richardson Contributing Writer At a training seminar to teach volunteers how to work with refugees, Elham Khairi, who spoke about cultural awareness, asked attendees to read phrases on slips of paper from a basket. “This person cannot make eye contact,” one statement read. “This person walks five miles a day,” read another. “This person […]
Lecturer discusses menthol cigarette use in black community
Walter Chidozie Anyanwu Contributing Writer Companies have intentionally marketed menthol cigarettes to African-American communities for more than 50 years, according to a lecture presented Nov. 5 at the Institute for Contemporary Art. The VCU Psychology Department hosted presenter Phillip Gardiner, program officer of the Tobacco-Related Disease Program at the University of California at Berkeley. Gardiner […]
Cracks in Medicaid expansion leave some Virginians without care
Macy Pressley Contributing Writer Many Virginians will remain without access to healthcare in January, despite the General Assembly passing Medicaid expansion in May according to the Virginia Health Care Foundation. Though the expansion is expected to bring healthcare to 400,000 Virginia residents, the work requirement — currently up for public comment — may present a […]
“I want to see my family”: Yemeni student impacted by conflict overseas
Ashleigh Christopher Contributing Writer The war in Yemen has created a historic humanitarian crisis, uprooting the lives of millions of Yemeni people, including 20-year-old VCU student Asma Raseem who is stuck in the U.S. after her program refused to send her back to the war-stricken country. Raseem came to the U.S. from Yemen in 2014 […]
Panel discusses perception of Muslim Americans at University of Richmond
Zach Armstrong Contributing Writer A panel of Muslim journalists visited the University of Richmond Friday to discuss the roles of Muslim writers as a normalizing force in portraying Muslim-Americans as regular citizens, rather than others. The discussion was sponsored by the Virginia chapter of the nonprofit Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America. […]