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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


Playwright and poet Cherrie Moraga, co-editor of the class feminist of color book, This Bridge Called My Back, discusses her new play, THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE, with Lisa Dettmer. In a time-traveling re-encounter with a 16th century female slave-turned-slaveholder, a Mexican woman in the early stages of Alzheimers is forced to concede a radically revised … Continued