Patrise Holden
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Washington Informer
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- Aug 12, 2026
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'The Softest Thing I Ever Did Was Survive': Breast Cancer Survivors and Clinicians Reframe the Meaning of Fight (opens the original)
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LaTalya M. Palmer was getting dressed in June 2017 when she found a lump in her breast. Having just had a mammogram the month before, she made a fateful decision: she dismissed it. “I self-diagnosed, thinking it could be a cyst, a reaction to something,” Palmer said. “My mammogram weeks before was normal; I simply never thought it could be cancer.” By August of that year, the pain had moved into her underarm. It eventually became so severe that she could no longer put her arm down. “I became con
Leaders of the New School (opens the original)
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The first thing Vanessa Finch wanted after her son died was simple: to continue to hear his name. Kahleeb Beckett, affectionately called Leebo, lived with sickle cell disease, genotype SS, for 23 years. As a concerned mother, Finch spent much of those years learning how to navigate a health care system that she found did not always listen. “Health care is a business, but for us, it is deeply personal,” she said. Having a chronically ill population from which billions are made, yet the treatment
'You Look Fine': Award-Winning Film Turns Invisible Illness Into a Call for Preventative Health (opens the original)
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Jared “J.” Snow knows what it means to look healthy while fighting serious health complications invisible to others. The filmmaker lives with sickle cell disease, a chronic, hereditary, debilitating illness. “For me, hearing, ‘you look fine,’ is something universal that all people can relate to whether they have a rare disease, hypertension, cancer, or high stress,” he said. Bringing an intimate story of awareness, especially to communities of color, of dismissing symptoms that can’t be identifi
Wisdom Walkers: Steps That Change Lives (opens the original)
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When Sharon Robinson Goods stood atop Mount Kilimanjaro in 2022, she wasn’t thinking about breaking records. She was thinking about possibilities. Just months removed from the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, she had spent nine months training alongside a group of seasoned adults, all over the age of 50, who refused to believe adventure belonged only to the young. Robinson Goods remembered watching younger climbers who had skipped training be forced to turn back while every member of her trai
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