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image captionIsaac Baptiste has been played by actor Stevie Basaula since last year
EastEnders has been working with the mental health charity Mind on a storyline focusing on schizophrenia, producers confirmed on Monday.
The BBC soap asked Mind to offer insight into the experiences of its character Isaac Baptiste - a black man grappling with the physical and social issues associated with the condition.
Actor Stevie Basaula has said it s a privilege to help tell his story.
The announcement coincides with the start of Mental Health Awareness Week.
The show s hook-up with the charity was designed to help the actors, producers and writers learn more about the emotional and social experience of living with schizophrenia, particularly looking at attitudes towards mental health in African Caribbean communities, EastEnders bosses said.
Tara A. Kilgallen of
Framingham has joined ERA Key as a Realtor in the
Framingham office.
Kilgallen has 20 years of experience as a yoga instructor in Massachusetts and California, and is currently as instructor at Common Ground Yoga in
Framingham. She previously served as co-director of Yoga at Lumina Mind Body Studios - Longfellow Health Clubs in
Wayland and
She was also a yoga instructor at Bosse Sports in
Sudbury. Before that, she was the director of yoga and retail manager at Tushita Heaven in San Juan Capistrano, California.
She earned her bachelor’s degree from Lesley University in Cambridge and completed her real estate training at Freedom Trail Realty School in Cambridge.
The American Society of Magazine Editors nominated ProPublica for five of its 2021 National Magazine Awards (also known as the Ellies), which honor excellence in print and digital media. ProPublica was recognized as a finalist for public interest, coverage of race, social media, digital innovation and community journalism.
A series by Lizzie Presser, which highlighted racial disparities in diabetic amputations and kidney care, was nominated for public interest. For years, diabetes has been disabling and killing Black Americans at startling rates, then came COVID-19, which targeted Black diabetics with deadly efficiency. In “The Black American Amputation Epidemic,” trailing a crusading Mississippi doctor, Presser’s immersive reporting told a national story about hospital neglect and government failures, failures that affect millions of Americans with diabetes. As a result, federal legislators introduced a sweeping bill to reduce unnecessary amputations the most significant le