Invisible Youth: Chapter 2. Loukaia Taylor continues her quest to share the stories of how young adults in AC are coping with the challenges of a year like no other.
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Overcoming mental health stigma through holistic healing in Atlantic City
By Katelyn Woolford, Stockton University
May 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of Mental Health Awareness Month, a national event for fighting stigma, providing support, educating the public and advocating for policies that help people with mental illness and their families.
Read MoreThe ‘sea’ glass is half full
‘Best barber in the world’
By Bill Sprouse, Route 40 News
Abdullah Anderson Sr., who is 48, cuts hair five days a week at Omar and Abdullah’s Hair Bazaar at 1208 Atlantic Avenue. He opens his shop at six a.m. two days a week (the other three days he opens at eight), and he works until six or eight p.m. every day.
Read MoreWhere the American dreamers work
By Elinor Comlay, Route 40 News
You’d be hard pressed to say it was a thriving Main Street, but the barbershop, Mexican restaurant, pizza place, tobacco store, mini-mart and even the closed-looking gift store are all open on a short span of Atlantic City’s Ventnor Ave, between Harrisburg and Trenton. In an age of dying malls and online shopping, something is working here in the Lower Chelsea neighborhood.
Read MoreWhen baseball was Atlantic City’s pastime
By Diane Stopyra, The Press of Atlantic City
It’s the middle of the third inning, and it’s not looking good for Atlantic City High School. Absegami is leading nine to zip. A lone spectator in the visitor stands sighs into her cell phone.
“These guys can’t catch a cold out here,” she says.
Read MoreTaking Atlantic City jazz history into the future through music education
By Shannon Joyce, Stockton University
“They don’t have a beach; we have a beach,” says Henrietta Shelton in a voice full of emotion as she speaks to an attentive audience at the Stockton University Atlantic City campus during a rainy April morning.
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