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Columbus family spends generations serving their community
Columbus activists Chris and April Sunami are spending their days working hard to bring injustices to light within their community. Author: Krista Frost (WBNS) Updated: 10:18 AM EST February 28, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio Being centered around community change has been a focus of many in the last year including central Ohio’s Sunami family.
Columbus activists Chris and April Sunami are still spending their days working hard to bring injustices to light within their community.
Chris works as a programmer by day and spends his free time composing music, public speaking and writing freelance for Columbus Underground. In the last year, he’s spent his time having candid conversations with people affected by injustice.
Dealing with inequities
As soon as psychologist Whitney Raglin Bignall steps into a new patient’s room at the primary-care clinic where she works, she sometimes sees a bit of tension ease in the nervous parents and children staring back at her.
Their shy smiles of hello might suddenly reach up toward their eyes, their shoulders might relax a little once the invisible weight of history lifts from them.
Only about 5% of practicing psychologists are Black, and that number is even lower when it comes to those who specialize in pediatric care, as Raglin Bignall does.
During this Black History Month which falls after a year racial reckonings across the country and amid a pandemic in which Black Americans are nearly three times more likely to die than others experts say speaking openly about mental wellness in minority communities may be more important than ever.
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