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Bad Blood, Bad Science
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:05
Generational Gene
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: My Body Odyssey
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Generational Gene may seem a special case; a middle-aged school superintendent with a father and grandfather who’ve contracted Type 2 diabetes, Gen...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 18:29
The Power of Planting
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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After being hospitalized for a month due to a complicated surgery that resulted in a blood infection, Sonia Flunder-Mcnair turned to food and the p...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 12:18
  • Purchases: 1
609: Living In Skin / 610: The Sound Of Silence, 8/7/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Living In Skin" - All over America, people have stopped touching faces and hugging friends. This hour, explore the inner life of your sk...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
A skin condition makes it hard for some Black men to shave ... and get ahead in the military
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Staff Sgt. Antoine raises his head as a flight surgeon inspects his neck and face during a 2018 shaving waiver course at Beale Air Force Base in California., Credit: Colville McFee / U.S. Air Force
Some Air Force members say they're facing discrimination because it's hard for them to shave their faces daily. Many have a skin condition that's e...

Bought by KMXT, KPBS, Texas Public Radio, and KRPS


  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 4
567: Discovering America's Black DNA / 568: Wonders Of The Human Body, 3/13/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Discovering America's Black DNA" - What happens when common DNA brings the black and white side of the family together for the first tim...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:58
GN_4.60_BarberShopMeds
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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Using the barbershop in black communities to help black men stay healthy.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
President Biden and America's Expectation
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Today, a divided nation experiences one of the most tumultuous presidential transitions in US history. Leaders from marginalized communities across...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
How can Philanthropy help bring a silver lining during the dark cloud of Covid-19 ?
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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How can Philanthropy help bring a silver lining during the dark cloud of Covid-19 ? With Elizabeth Barbella President of The Community Foundation M...

Bought by WCNY and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Stephanie Evans: Africana Studies & Institutional Wellness
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Dr. Stephanie Evans
How does historical wellness play out in race and gender? Tune in to learn about historical wellness and its relation to a Black student’s and Bla...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 58:06
491: Breaking The Chains / 492: Wonders Of The Human Body, 6/20/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Breaking The Chains" - You can trace a direct line from slavery to the mass incarceration of Black men. Should we defund the police? How...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
Race and COVID
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Race and Covid
While citizens take to the streets to protest racist violence, the pandemic has its own brutal inequities. Black, Latino, and Native American peopl...

Bought by KWMR, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Police Psychological Screening with Dr. Richard Zonderman- Miami Dade College School of Justice Police Academy, Formerly CIA Washington D.C.
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Police Psychological Screening with Dr. Richard Zonderman- Miami Dade College School of Justice Police Academy, Formerly CIA(Central Intelligence A...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Jun 05, 2020
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
S1 E6 That's Ninja Doc To You
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Hospitalist Meghan O'Brien recounts the frustration of caring for a homeless patient who would rather be on the streets.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 32:47
S1 E1 Recognition
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Ben Lerman, an emergency medicine physician, describes how his ability to empathize with his patients deteriorated throughout his medical training,...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:31
Labors and Losses: maternal mortality in the United States
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
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Why are new mothers dying at an alarming rate in this country?

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 10, 2019
  • Length: 21:26
  • Purchases: 1
Get Your Health Right
From: WIL LAVEIST
Series: The Wil LaVeist Show
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Focus on elderly healthcare research, prostate cancer treatment and fitness.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:13
Documentarian Katherine King and The Hantam Community Education Trust (HCET), Eradicating Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) starting with South Africa
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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The Hantam Community Education Trust, Eradicating Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) starting with South Africa. Katherine King Documentarian joins us f...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 2
Grassroots Bus Service Brings Healing Touch To Inmates And Families
From: Side Effects Public Media
Series: Side Effects News
Caption: Janice McClain poses beside the Use What You've Got Prison Ministry bus, which connects people with their incarcerated family members., Credit: Emily Forman/Side Effects Public Media
The lack of literal human connection in prison can take its toll on inmates and their families. A grassroots bus service in Indiana transports fami...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 3
Cultural, Economic, Historical Factors Drive Black Breast-Feeding Gap
From: Side Effects Public Media
Series: Side Effects News
Caption: Chelsea Goodlow and her daughter Kaylee at the Indiana Black Breastfeeding Coalition picnic in August., Credit: Sarah Fentem/ Side Effects Public Media
The "breast is best" message seems often to miss black women, who breast-feed at a rate much lower than other races. Why?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
Victims Of Gun Violence Pay A LIfelong Price
From: Side Effects Public Media
Series: Side Effects News
Caption: Aaron Murray pops a wheelie at the ParaQuad gym in St. Louis, Credit: Durrie Bouscaren
For every person shot and killed in the U.S., there are two who make it out alive. Those close calls can leave victims with a lifelong disability...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
Disparities in Cancer Care Represent a Major Public Health Problem
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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In this episode of The Onco’Zine Brief hosts Peter Hofland, Ph.D and Sonia Portillo interview Michael A. Caligiuri, MD, the current president of th...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2017
  • Length: 25:02
Mental Health: Why Students of Color Suffer More
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Eliquewa Santiago says college makes her struggle with mental health even more difficult. (c) 2016 Taylor Epps
Mental health is an issue that rarely gets discussed in the black community. For college students of color the issue gets even more difficult.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2016
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. June Jackson Christmas: Sydenham Hospital
From: LaGuardia and Wagner Archives
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Dr. June Jackson Christmas, a psychiatrist, was the first African-American woman appointed Commissioner of the New York City Department Health and ...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 14:39
Episode 1607
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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This week's playlist shines a light on mental illness, through a respectful look at the topic and songs that fit the theme.

Bought by WJSU and WSGE


  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2