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02 Nov A Look Inside NYC’s Supervised Drug-Injection Sites, The First In The Nation
At 3 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, the drop-in center at New York Harm Reduction Educators’ East Harlem site was bustling. A few people lingered at the back of the room, asking a staffer when it would be their turn to go into a closed-off area...
12 Oct Takeover: How We Occupied a Hospital and Changed Public Health Care
On July 14, 1970, members of the Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx — known locally as “the Butcher Shop.” A group of activists, many of them in their late teens and early 20s, barricaded themselves inside the facility, demanding safer and...
03 Jun HIV: The Neglected Pandemic
Jonathan Van Ness takes us through 40 years of HIV/AIDS by hearing from the people who have survived the global pandemic, what it’s like living with HIV & how it’s stigmatized now....
21 Feb Dope is Death
The story of a radical movement that sought to end heroin addiction in communities of color with acupuncture, led by Dr. Mutulu Shakur, the step father of Tupac. Check out shortlist.vice.com for more. "The producers of Dope is Death would like to acknowledge an error...
05 Feb Dope is Death – Bonus Content
The story of a radical movement that sought to end heroin addiction in communities of color with acupuncture, led by Dr. Mutulu Shakur, the step father of Tupac. ...
31 May NYHRE: Who We Are
Born out of the ACT UP NYC movement and now the largest provider of clean syringes in the state, New York Harm Reduction Educators (NYHRE) promotes the health, safety, and dignity of people who use drugs and engage in sex work in East Harlem and...
06 Dec Business of Saving Lives
An overview of the services that the Washington Corner Heights Project provided and its impact on the community. ...