Our Streets is a column by writer and reporter Ray Levy Uyeda that highlights activists, artists, and organizers who are doing the work and reclaiming power for the people.
When students at Hampton University, a historically Black university located in Hampton, Virginia, were forced to transition to online learning due to the pandemic, a change instituted to protect public safety actually jeopardized student health in another way. When people were attending classes in person, Amber Wynne, a senior who runs Hampton’s student emergency reproductive hotline, could easily provide emergency contraception and condoms to students on Hampton’s suburban campus. But after students relocated to off-campus apartments or parents’ homes, the work of distributing critical supplies got more complicated.
