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Author Archives: Mariama Jallow

Mariama Jallow is a Senior at Wake Forest University, majoring in Politics and International Affairs with double minors in Journalism and African Studies. She is a reporter.

Two home in the Boston- Thurmond community
Posted inHealth Inequities

In Winston-Salem, healthy food access is key to neighborhood revival

by Mariama Jallow February 14, 2022August 31, 2022

By Mariama Jallow David West, a retired juvenile court counselor for the state of North Carolina, grew up in the Boston-Thurmond neighborhood in Winston-Salem, a predominantly Black community that has seen many changes over the past century. Until the early 1990s, it was a vibrant neighborhood filled with Black Americans in a variety of tax […]

an aerial photo of Winston-Salem shows the smoke from the fertilizer plant fire
Posted inHealth Inequities

Wake Forest University students recount fertilizer plant fire, evacuations

by Mariama Jallow February 7, 2022August 31, 2022
Muhammad Siddiqui sitting in a garden with lot of colorful flowers to the left of him.
Posted inInfectious Disease

Their father survived 9/11, but could not beat COVID

by Mariama Jallow October 13, 2021April 1, 2022
In this photo Houston Booth is wearing a mask on Wake Forest Campus in front of Wait Chapel, the Chapel is blurred in the background.
Posted inInfectious Disease

Navigating the fall semester: Contrasts between private and public college campuses

by Mariama Jallow August 17, 2021August 31, 2022
In this photo 11 doctors and nurses are in a hospital in Gambia, they are all wearing a PPE mask and have a blue hat head cover on. Five of them are standing and five of them are sitting, each of the ten people are holding a piece of paper with one word on it. Starting from the top left with the people staying the words, 'we stay here for you' are written on the paper they are holding. Starting from the left the people sitting down have the words, 'please stay home for us' written on their papers. On the right of the image, the eleventh person is holding up a Gambian flag.
Posted inInfectious Disease

The Gambia and North Carolina — 4,000 miles apart with one thing in common

by Mariama Jallow August 11, 2021August 31, 2022

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