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The “FACE MY ABUSE” Domestic Violence walk

Posted on September 18, 2012 by | 1 Comment
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We would like to encourages anyone! who has ever experienced any form of Domestic Violence Abuse to join us on Saturday, Oct 6, 2012 as Jacqueline Rowe in Association with Friends… Continue reading →
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Marcia Gay Harden At HELP USA 2010 Domestic Violence Luncheon

Posted on November 12, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Scholarship recipients attend the HELP USA 2010 Domestic Violence Graduate Scholarship awards luncheon hosted by Harlem resident Marcia Gay Harden and Deborah Roberts, honoring Mary J. Blige at Four Seasons Restaurant on November 9, 2010 in New York City.

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Harlem Woman Kills Husband: ‘Wanted him to stop choking me’

Posted on October 16, 2010 by | 4 Comments

A nursing assistant who stabbed her husband to death has been acquitted of his murder after a court heard she suffered years of domestic abuse. Continue reading →

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Walter’s World: Healing Through the Arts

Posted on October 12, 2010 by | 4 Comments

By Walter Rutledge

The indomitable human spirit has the ability to rise in moments of extreme tragedy and inconsolable despair. It lifts our downcast head and illuminates the darkness, revealing that glimmer of hope we refer to as the light at the end of the tunnel. Tynetta Megginson mother was murdered in 2001; to help herself and her children walk toward the light Megginson founded A Helping Hand Heals a Heart.

The organization brings together families that have been devastated by the homicide. “A Helping Hand Heals a Heart was founded on the belief that helping others allows one to heal self”, shared Megginson. After the death of her mother, her children found solace in the performing arts. Eventually the arts also provided Megginson with an outlet for her pain, and aided in the healing process.

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Moby stands against Domestic Violence

Posted on October 10, 2009 by | Leave a comment

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mobyElectronic artist and Harlem native Moby understands better than most the importance of domestic violence shelters for women in need, having grown up with a mother who was involved in several abusive relationships.

At the age of eight, “I had to stop her from being stabbed to death by a boyfriend of hers,” Moby tells Billboard. “I hate to say this, but almost half of the women I know who are friends of mine have been in abusive relationships of some sort or another.”

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Beyond Chris Brown And Rihanna

Posted on February 18, 2009 by | 1 Comment

Domestic Violence

A conversation with Elizabeth Mendez Berry, who wrote the well-known Vibe magazine feature “Love Hurts” about domestic violence within (and without) hip-hop:
www.thefreeradical.ca/Love_Hur…

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