Five years ago, Jeremy Rashad Brown created the character Reggie 'Rap' Unzell III for the children's play Rap Unzel. Now Reggie Rap is the center of Brown's mental health and self-care movement.
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“It means something to me, this particular cause – when it comes to mental wellness… especially to youth – because of the past five years we've had. And with the pandemic raging on the way it did and how a lot of us – pretty much all of us – didn't know exactly what to do and how things were going to be afterwards, or even if therean afterwards. And we were adults.
Brown says Reggie is based – at least in part – on his own younger self. “There are some elements to him that are definitely me,” he says, “but it's the more idealized version of myself that I aspire to be.”
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