0:08 – Deirdre Cooper-Owens is associate professor of history at Queens College, CUNY, about how American gynecology experimented on enslaved women in her book Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the origins of American Gynecology.
1:08 – New vaccines by Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech offer new hope that an end to the COVID 19 pandemic may be in sight. And at the same time, distrust of the vaccine among African Americans is very high. For more on the history of African-Americans’ distrust of vaccines we’re joined by Greg Carr Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University.