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2/15/21 Dementia: Culture, Race, and Care

50 million people are living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias worldwide. Here in the U.S. African Americans are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s and other dementias, but only half as likely to get a proper diagnosis, treatment or access to support and resources. Join Nurse Rona and her guest Karla Fields, a Community Outreach … Continued


Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson are seminal figures in U.S. history. But how accurate a picture have we been given of them, and what would it mean if Tubman were depicted on U.S. currency? Catherine Squires sees a controversy over a “pocket monument” as an opportunity to rethink conventional narratives and reframe U.S. history. (Encore presentation.) … Continued


Guest: Brenda Wineapple is the author of the book The impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. This is the story of the period shortly after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, when Vice-President Andrew Johnson, now “the Accidental President,”  ignored Congress, pardoned rebel leaders, promoted white supremacy, opposed civil rights, and called Reconstruction … Continued