Articles
As a journalist, I specialize in medicine, health, fitness, HIV, parenting and lesbian and gay issues. These are some of my favorite articles:
Over the years, I have written many articles for Essence. In 1991, with my mom, Clara, I wrote “Coming Out,” which, at the time, received more mail than any other in the magazine’s history. Due to the overwhelming response, we followed up with an update several months later.
- Coming Out (1.5mb)
- Response to Coming Out (1mb)
- Revelations (1.3mb)
- Our Girls in Crisis (1.7mb)
I have written often for the Times, mainly covering health. Two of my articles on African-Americans and HIV/AIDS appeared on the front page of the paper.
- Patients with H.I.V. Seen as Separated by a Racial Divide
- AIDS Fears Grow for Black Women
- The Wheezing that Could Signal Childhood Asthma
- Done Right, Colonoscopy Takes Time, Study Finds
- A Miracle Cure for Diabetes?
- The Wonders Down Under
- Weather Changes
- Environment, Genetics or Both?
- When Milk Does a Body Bad
- What Color Does It Hurt?
- Environment, Genetics or Both?
- Is There a Link Between Vaccines and Austism?
- The Fibroid Sisterhood
- A Cocktail for Prevention
- An Appetite for Hunger
- Phylicia Rashad's Mission
- A Pill a Day to Keep HIV Away?
- When Weight Loss Make You Fat
- How to Avoid the 7 Biggest Weight Loss Mistakes
- Why Black People Need More Vitamin D
- My Gay Thanksgiving
You can find my occasional column, “Outside the Lines,” on aftellen.com, which appears on MTV’s logoonline.com.
