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Entertaining

Inspiration For Your Next Gathering

A Day At The Beach

A stunning dinner party on the beach in Sag Harbor.

Making Moments Count Together

Friends gather to discuss what makes moments together truly count.

Making The Perfect Navy Grog

How to make the perfect Navy Grog for your next event.

A Modern Kwanzaa Celebration

How to create a modern Kwanzaa display for the holiday season.

Interior Design

Beautiful Black Interiors

At Home With Danielle Brooks

Tour The Color Purple actor’s Brooklyn townhome.

Nasozi Kakembo’s Worldly Interior

HGTV’s Sneak Peek with AphroChic tours the warm and worldly Maryland home of the founder of xN Studio.

Cyndie Spiegel's Colorful Home

HGTV'S Sneak Peek with AphroChic tours an eclectic apartment in Brooklyn.

Reuben Reuel’s Brooklyn Studio

The creative director of the womenswear brand Demestik, takes us on a tour of his Brooklyn apartment.

Krystle DeSantos’ Vintage Girl Cave

HGTV’s Sneak Peek with AphroChic takes you inside a Bronx apartment where vintage finds reign.

Camille and Joe’s Pied-à-Terre

HGTV's Sneak Peek with AphroChic tours a European-inspired home in Long Beach, California.

At Home with Delphine Diallo

The French-Senegalese photographer gives us a tour of her Brooklyn apartment.

Film

The Black Community of Baltimore, Maryland, one of the nation’s largest, was deeply affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Efforts at widespread vaccination among the city's Black residents have been largely successful, owing in large part to a unique partnership between the Baltimore City Health Department, extensive medical and academic institutions and members of the Black community. What reluctance remains around vaccination is primarily due to historic mistrust of the medical community, which is itself rooted in a deep history of mistreatment and neglect. This is a hurt that must be addressed if Baltimore is to heal from this terrible pandemic. Bryan Mason and Jeanine Hays of AphroChic teamed with editor Tahir Juba and music composer John Tyler - both Baltimoreans - to produce a short documentary film aimed at collecting, acknowledging and addressing community concerns around vaccination, highlighting the city's accomplishments, recognizing the hard history of medical mistreatment of Black people and presenting the facts of vaccination, not as a government mandate, but as a vital act of being a part of Baltimore’s Black community and protecting it.

Baltimore Speaks: Black Communities, COVID-19 and the Cost of Not Doing Enough

The Topics Impacting The Black Community

Baltimore Speaks: Tamara Jones-Short

Value Baltimore team member, Tamara Jones-Short speaks about her love for her native city and the steps that will keep it safe through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Baltimore Speaks: Douglas Zimmerman

Value Baltimore team member Douglas Zimmerman discusses his path to getting involved in community efforts to spread accurate vaccine information in the city of Baltimore, and the importance of a personal connection to the community.

A discussion of the film, Baltimore Speaks: Black Communities, COVID-19 and the Cost of Not Doing Enough, and of the evolving situation in Baltimore. The panel features three women from the film: Chimére L. Smith, Long Covid Patient Consultant; Sandra Dobson, Coordinator of the Older Adults Group for the Value Baltimore Community Ambassador Health Program; and Lois Privor-Dumm, Sr. Advisor, Policy, Advocacy & Communications, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Moderated by the filmmakers, Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason of AphroChic, the panelists speak in greater detail about the experiences of the community and the efforts of the city, the continued impact of COVID-19 on the city of Baltimore and how the city continues to mobilize against it.

AphroChic 2022 Covid-19 Summit: Baltimore Speaks Panel

AphroChic 2022 Covid-19 Summit: The Way Forward: Envisioning Community and Policy responses to COVID-19 in 2023 Panel

Acknowledging the crucial connection between public policy and public health, this panel brings Baltimore Speaks directors Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason of AphroChic together with Gabriel San Emeterio, National Organizer and Co-founder of Strategies for High Impact (S4HI) and the Network for Long COVID Justice, to discuss COVID-19 from a policy standpoint. This fireside chat presents a clear picture of the crisis as it currently stands, needed policy initiatives for saving lives and increasing health equity in this country, and practical, functional steps that everyone can take to make a difference right now.

Baltimore Speaks Trailer

Trailer for Baltimore Speaks: Black Communities, COVID-19 and the Cost of Not Doing Enough, the debut film by Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason of AphroChic.