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Nobody tells you about menopause. Sure, you hear about hot flashes from time to time, maybe from a relative or in a joke on a TV show. But the sex-ed classes that teach tweens and teens about periods rarely mention the day those periods will end. Even doctors rarely bring up menopause with their patients, and too often dismiss the symptoms when they occur. “We get the puberty talk, but we don’t get the menopause talk,” Pauline Maki, a professor of psychiatry, psychology, and obstetrics an...

Hayti Heritage Film Festivals 27th Year Traces the Heros Journey Still from "The Pandemic Chronicles" The heros journey, in traditional literature, is a story in three acts: the setup and a call to action, the struggle (allies and enemies), and the wrap-up, or resurrection.  "Were definitely in the call-to-action phase," says Lana Garland, festival director of the Hayti Heritage Film Festival, which was founded in 1994 with the goal of creating and celebrating a "Black film ecosystem i...