Black History Month 2022

Black Health and Wellness

Presented by Quinnipiac's Black Student Union and the Arnold Bernhard Library.

“I am not going to die; I’m going home like a shooting star.” —Sojourner Truth

Anti-Racism in Medicine, Nursing, & Health Sciences guide created by librarians at Quinnipiac's Edward and Barbara Netter Library

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.” —Frederick Douglass

Radical self-care is empowering people and helping fight burnout January 26, 2022 episode, updated January 29, 2022. Khalilah Brown-Dean, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Professor of Political Science, Quinnipiac University , interviews @@@ on Disrupted, her Connecticut Public Radio program/podcast. In this episode, she interviews Dr. Maryam Aziz - African American History Postdoctoral Fellow at Penn State University, Angelee Lopez- Certified meditation guide and founder of Manifest House, a virtual wellbeing space, and Doreen Ford - Anti-Work movement advocate and a former moderator for the anti-work subreddit r/Antiwork.


Daniel Hale Williams

(January 18, 1856 – August 4, 1931) was an American general surgeon, who in 1893 performed the first documented, successful pericardium (heart) surgery in the U.S. to repair a wound. He founded Chicago’s Provident Hospital, the first non-segregated hospital in the United States and also founded an associated nursing school for African Americans. In 1913, Williams was elected as the only African American charter member of the American College of Surgeons.

Quotes found in :

Gomez, J., & Tempera, J. (2021, February 3). 100 Black History Month Quotes That Will Inspire And Motivate You This Year. Women’s Health. https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a35230247/black-history-month-quotes/

Quotation Marks by TMD from NounProject.com