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The Health, Hope, & Hip-Hop Foundation leverages hip-hop music & culture to improve health literacy in underserved communities.
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10/29/2026

🎤🔥 CHI-TOWN, YOU SHOWED UP AND SHOWED LOVE! ❤️

STOP 3 OF THE MIC CHECK MYELOMA TOUR WAS SOMETHING SPECIAL!

Chicago brought the energy, the questions, the stories, and most importantly, the COMMUNITY!

💬 “It is just so important for me to be around others who understand what I am going through.” — Chicago attendee

THAT’S what Mic Check Myeloma is all about! 💜

From powerful conversations about early detection and self-advocacy to the connections made between patients, care partners, and medical experts, Chicago reminded us why we do this work.

🙏 SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS & PARTNERS!

❤️ Tour Sponsors: Blood Cancer United, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol Myers Squibb, and AbbVie — joining the tour in Chicago!

🤝 National Tour Partner: International Myeloma Foundation

💜 Chicago Community Partners: Nicole Cares Foundation, UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center – OCECHE, and Chicago Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

📸 Special thanks to The Image of Grace for capturing the experience!

Much love to our incredible panel, moderator Sonya Blakey, DJ V-DUB, volunteers, and everyone who came through!

🎤 CHICAGO, YOU WERE MORE THAN A TOUR STOP. YOU WERE PART OF THE MOVEMENT!

🔥 NEXT UP: HOUSTON — NOVEMBER 7!

👉 Houston registration through the link in bio!

10/28/2026

🎤🔥 HOUSTON, THE MIC IS HEADED YOUR WAY!

The MIC CHECK MYELOMA 5-CITY TOUR is rolling into H-Town on Saturday, November 7! 🚀

After powerful stops in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Chicago, it’s Houston’s turn to experience where health education meets hip-hop, music, culture, and community!

🎙️ Oya Gilbert — Moderator
🩺 Dr. Joseph Mikhael
🎤 Rev. Nicole Duncan-Smith
🎤 Bryon Daily
🎤 Thomas Goode
💜 Tracy Wilson — Care Partner

🔥 REAL STORIES. REAL EXPERTISE. REAL CONVERSATIONS.

This isn’t your typical health event! It’s an opportunity to connect, ask questions, hear from people living with multiple myeloma, and gain knowledge that can make a difference.

And the best part? THIS EVENT IS FREE! 🙌

📅 Saturday, November 7, 2026
⏰ 12 PM – 4 PM
📍 3 Stories | Third Ward, Houston, TX

🎤 HOUSTON, IT’S TIME TO PUT MYELOMA ON THE MIC!

👉 REGISTER NOW THROUGH THE LINK IN BIO!

10/23/2026

🎤 HEARING PATIENTS ISN’T ENOUGH. LISTEN. THEN TAKE ACTION! 💯

Yesterday, our Founder & CEO, Oya Gilbert, joined fellow advocates Gabriel Nathan, Daniel Gereg, and Megan Starshak at Johnson & Johnson’s North America Forum and HealtheVoices Expo in Titusville, NJ.

Moderated by J&J’s Isha Williams, the conversation delivered one powerful message:

🗣️ Patient voices deserve more than a platform.

💡 Lived experiences should influence decisions.

✊🏾 Real partnerships must lead to real ACTION!

Oya also had the opportunity to connect with Kevin J. Hamill, Company Group Chairman, North America at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine.

At Health, Hope & Hip-Hop Foundation, we’re committed to making sure patient voices don’t just start conversations. They help create CHANGE!

Much love to our fellow panelists, Isha, and the J&J and HealtheVoices teams for bringing patient voices into these important conversations! 🙌🏾

LISTEN. UNDERSTAND. ACT.

10/19/2026

🎤🔥 CHICAGO, IT’S GOING DOWN THIS SATURDAY!

The lineup is SET, the countdown is ON, and SEATS ARE FILLING UP! 👀🔥

The MIC CHECK MYELOMA TOUR hits the Windy City THIS SATURDAY, October 24, bringing together an incredible lineup for an afternoon of real conversations, expert insight, music, culture, and community!

🎙️ Sonya Blakey
🩺 Dr. Joseph Mikhael
🎤 Oya Gilbert
🎤 Nicole Duncan-Smith
🎤 Bryon Daily
💜 Michelle Ivy
🎧 DJ V-DUB

This isn’t your typical health event! It’s where health education meets hip-hop and community, and everyone has a seat at the conversation.

🔥 AND THE BEST PART? THIS EVENT IS FREE!

📅 THIS SATURDAY | OCTOBER 24
⏰ 12 PM – 4 PM
📍 mHUB | 1623 W Fulton Street, Chicago

🎤 CHICAGO, IT’S TIME TO PUT MYELOMA ON THE MIC!

👉 Register for FREE: https://healthhopehiphop.org/mic-check-myeloma/

10/09/2026

DON’T JUST INVITE US. BUILD WITH US. 🎤

That’s the energy we brought to Pfizer!

Our founder Oya Gilbert and fellow myeloma patient advocate Thomas Goode joined Jeff Legos and the Pfizer Oncology team for Health, Hope & Hip-Hop: A Fireside Session at Pfizer’s Collegeville, PA location.

And the conversation didn’t stop there.

Pfizer colleagues joined from across the U.S. and around the world, with teams at participating sites rocking Health, Hope & Hip-Hop Foundation T-shirts! 🙌🏾

But the real impact was in the conversation.

Jeff spoke about bringing together communities across geographic and cultural boundaries.

Thomas shared why he found his voice as a patient advocate after experiencing how difficult it can be for patients to talk openly about cancer.

And Oya reminded everyone why we use hip-hop to advance health literacy:

TRUST.

🎤 Culture creates connection.
🗣️ Patient voices create understanding.
🔬 Science creates possibilities.
🤝 Trust brings us together.

“Don’t just invite us, come and build with us. ’Cause the cure moves faster at the speed of trust.”

A special shoutout to Pfizer’s Advocacy Team, Jeff Legos and the entire Pfizer Oncology team for creating space for authentic patient voices.

This is what happens when science meets culture and patients help shape the conversation.

🎥 Watch the recap!

HEALTH. HOPE. HIP-HOP.

10/05/2026

🎤🔥 CHICAGO — YOU’RE UP NEXT!

The MIC CHECK MYELOMA TOUR is headed to the Windy City on Saturday, October 24!

After Philadelphia and Atlanta, the conversation continues — bringing together real stories, expert insight, culture, and community to turn up the volume on multiple myeloma awareness.

And don’t just take our word for it. Here’s what one attendee shared after Atlanta:

💬 “I’m gonna leave here with so much hope, so much inspiration. The panel themselves were just amazing.”

Now, Chicago gets its turn.

🎙️ Sonya Blakey — Chicago radio personality — takes the mic as moderator.

Joining the conversation:

🩺 Dr. Joseph Mikhael — Myeloma Specialist
🎤 Oya Gilbert — Myeloma Advocate
🎤 Nicole Ducan-Smith — Myeloma Advocate
🎤 Bryon Daily — Myeloma Advocate
💜 Michelle Ivy — Care Partner

📅 Saturday, October 24, 2026
⏰ 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
📍 mHUB | 1623 W Fulton Street, Chicago

This isn’t your typical health event.

Come for the knowledge. Come for the culture. Leave with something that can change the way you advocate for your health.

🎤 CHICAGO, IT’S TIME TO PUT MYELOMA ON THE MIC.

👉 Register through the link in bio or scan the QR code.

10/02/2026

HIP-HOP. HEALTH. PURPOSE. SUMMER MADNESS 16. 🎤🔥

What a weekend.

On September 26, the energy started building with the face-offs. Then on September 27, some of battle rap’s best stepped on the Summer Madness 16 stage—and the Health, Hope & Hip-Hop Foundation was proud to be a sponsor of it all.

For us, this partnership with URL made perfect sense.

Our mission has always been about meeting people where they are and using the power of hip-hop culture to make conversations about health, wellness and advocacy relevant to our communities. And there aren’t many spaces more authentically hip-hop than battle rap—MCs standing face-to-face, going bar for bar, with the culture watching.

For me personally, it was full circle. Hip-hop saved my life growing up. Then, after being diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2017, I turned that pain into purpose.

Now, through Health, Hope & Hip-Hop, we want to use the culture that gave so much to us to help save lives.

We want our people enjoying the battles, living their lives and celebrating the culture—but we also want them prioritizing their health, knowing their bodies, getting checked, asking questions and advocating for themselves.

Much love to SMACK/URLTV.TV, Troy Smack Mitchell, |Ic and E Beasley for welcoming us and recognizing that health belongs in the culture, too.

Summer Madness 16 was bigger than battles for us. It was another opportunity to put health where the culture is. 💯

A special thank you to Nicole Yvonne Duncan- Smith for bringing us together ❤️

With support from Johnson & Johnson.

10/01/2026

🎙️ NEW EPISODE JUST DROPPED!

Everybody loves when the beat drops. 🎶

But imagine living your life waiting for a beat you hope NEVER comes.

On the newest Hip Hope Hooray! Men Talkin’ Health, I sit down with Gulf War veteran and patient advocate Eric Blackburn to talk about life with smoldering multiple myeloma.

The uncertainty.
The mental weight.
The waiting.

But here’s the BAR:

🔥 Waiting does not mean standing still.

Eric turned his wait into purpose—from advocating for veterans and patients to cycling through Iceland in support of myeloma research.

And he leaves us with a question all of us can sit with:

What are you going to do with the time you’ve been given?

🎧 Watch & listen NOW — link in bio.

Available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean and all major podcast platforms.

This episode is supported by Johnson & Johnson, Legend Biotech and Pfizer.

09/14/2026

🎤 STOP #2: ATLANTA — MIC CHECK!

Philly kicked it off. Now Mic Check Myeloma: We Care for the Culture Tour is headed SOUTH. 🔥

On Saturday, September 19, we’re bringing myeloma awareness, real conversations, lived experience, expert knowledge and hip-hop culture together at Terminus 330 in Atlanta.

And ATL, look at this lineup. 👀

🎙️ Francesca Amiker — Emmy Award-winning storyteller, Atlanta native and V-103 personality — will moderate the conversation.

🩺 Dr. Joseph Mikhael — one of the nation’s leading myeloma experts — is bringing the knowledge.

💪🏾 Nicole Duncan-Smith and Oya Gilbert are bringing the patient and advocacy perspective.

❤️ Bridgette Tarplin-McKenzie is bringing the voice of a care partner who has walked alongside her mother through a 20+ year myeloma journey.

🙌🏾 April Byrd is bringing her story of survivorship, purpose and what it means to live beyond a blood cancer diagnosis.

🎧 And this is Atlanta, so you already know the culture has to be represented. DJ Jelly will be on the turntables bringing that ATL energy.

This isn’t a lecture.
This isn’t your typical health event.

This is health information delivered differently. In community. Through culture.

📍 Terminus 330 | 330 Marietta Street NW, Atlanta
📅 Saturday, September 19, 2026
⏰ 12:00–4:00 PM
🎟️ FREE — registration required

👉🏾 Register at healthhopehiphop.org/mic-check-myeloma/

Atlanta, pull up. We Care for the Culture.

HealthEquity

09/14/2026

Today, Health, Hope and Hip Hop Foundation proudly celebrates Positive K for turning his personal experience as a caregiver into purpose.

By joining the Alzheimer’s Association as an advocate, Positive K is using his voice to raise awareness, uplift caregivers and remind families affected by Alzheimer’s and dementia that they are not alone.

We also salute Q-Tip, Rapsody and Speech of Arrested Development for using their voices and artistry to bring visibility to the ways dementia affects families and Black communities.

We honor every artist who shares their truth. We embrace every family navigating an uncertain journey. Most of all, we pour love into the caregivers who keep showing up with patience, strength and compassion—even when no one sees the weight they carry.

Your work matters. Your stories matter. Your health matters, too.

Now it’s our turn to use our voices. Learn the signs. Start the conversations in our families and communities. Support caregivers. And advocate for greater awareness, resources and access to care for every family impacted by Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Learn more and find resources at:
https://www.alzincolor.com/

Awareness is where it starts. Advocacy is how we move it forward.

More than music. This is personal. This is purpose.

Address

2 N. Washington Street, PO Box 211
Greencastle, PA
17225

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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