Richmond’s Melody Barnes, chair of The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, director of the UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy and director of White House Domestic Policy Council under President Barack Obama, was among the speakers at Ascendant.
Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, photographed by Eze Amos
In this episode, Kelli Lemon and Michael Paul Williams talk with The New York Times Magazine and 1619 Project contributor Linda Villarosa about her new book "Under the Skin: Racism, Inequality, and the Health of a Nation." In the conversation and book, Villarosa shares troubling statistics that college-educated Black mothers are more likely to die, almost die or lose their babies than white mothers who haven’t finished high school.
Linda also shares that some of today’s medical texts and instruments still carry fallacious slavery-era assumptions that Black bodies are fundamentally different from white bodies, causing disproportionate suffering. After the Monuments is supported by VCU Massey Cancer Center and Team Henry Enterprises.
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Richmond’s Melody Barnes, chair of The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, director of the UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy and director of White House Domestic Policy Council under President Barack Obama, was among the speakers at Ascendant.
Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, photographed by Eze Amos
