Kristen V. Brown, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss giant loopholes in anti-discrimination laws that might allow disability and long-term care providers to exploit genetic testing results — even if a person never gets sick — and what that means for those told by a physician they should get tested.
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Kimberlee Yolanda Williams is an educator and DEI administrator, and she discusses a series of 40 letters she wrote to a fictional white sister about her experiences as a Black woman facing discrimination and microaggressions.
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Adam Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to discuss why Black students have always been an afterthought in higher education, the legacy that has created and the road toward reckoning with this discrimination.
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Omar G. Encarnación, a professor of political studies at Bard College, joins us to make the case that it’s time for not only apologies from the federal government, but monetary compensation for those who were victims of laws codifying homophobia.
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Amy Maxmen is a science journalist for Nature, and she joins us to talk about social determinants of health – a concept that’s been around for 150 years – and why it’s taken a pandemic to really focus on the health outcomes of the most vulnerable.
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Ruqaiijah Yearby joins us to discuss how unemployment, lack of affordable housing and other factors lead to health inequities.
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Erika Lee, director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, us to talk about how our country’s fear of the “other” has been with us since the beginning — and how our historical amnesia is holding back healing.
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We’ll talk this hour about the ADA’s unlikely path from idea to law with Lennard J. Davis, author of Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights.
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