Tre’Vell Anderson

Grazell Howard is a living embodiment of the Black AIDS Institute’s motto of “Our People. Our Problem. Our Solution.” Clear-eyed about the failures of a movement to truly address the needs of those most impacted by the virus, her assessment of this moment in which Black and brown communities are still disproportionately affected by HIV is simple.  “I think what we did, unintentionally, is we went to the largest disease-burdened group, which were men who have sex with men — and that’s fine, that’s what you’re supposed to do,” she said. “However, we never then came back and said, ‘It impacts all of us. We […]