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Guest Commentator

Dr. Mei-Ling Malone, PhD

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Dr. Mei-Ling Malone, PhD is a Housing Advocate at A New Way of Life Reentry Project, a non profit located in South Central Los Angeles that provides direct services to women coming out of jails and prisons. Click here to contact Dr. Malone.

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Guest Commentary

“It’s a Matter of Life or Death”

By Dr. Mei-Ling Malone, PhD Guest Commentator

I open with a quote I took from a sixth grade science lesson plan on “Human Needs”. “Human beings have certain basic needs. We must have food, water, air, and shelter to survive. If any one of these basic needs is not met, then humans cannot survive.”(1) You see, shelter is a must have for…

I open with a quote I took from a sixth grade science lesson plan on “Human Needs”. “Human beings have certain basic needs. We must have…

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