The Greater Sacramento Urban League organizes the events to help foster a sense of community, support and understanding among attendees, ultimately empowering them to address their mental health needs.
One Sacramento-area nurse has made it his mission to diversify his field of healthcare. For Carter Todd, a nurse manager at Kaiser Roseville and former PICU nurse, it's a passion.
Several organizations partnered together on Saturday for Barbershop Health Talks. The event was held in person and streamed virtually from the Guild Theater, and World Class Faders in Sacramento.
The tattoos on both forearms spell out “Black Brilliance” and if the ink doesn’t tell you what she’s about from the start, her name certainly will.
“It means ‘woman made of steel,’” Asantewaa Boykin explains of the moniker she was given by an elder.
Ms. Boykin is the co-founder of the Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP), an organization “committed to the eradication of police terror in all of its forms.” At 38 years old, she balances militancy with motherhood and being a wife. She’s been in nursing for 15 years, largely working in acute inpatient psychiatry, and is a founding member of the Capitol City Black Nurses Association.