RACIST HISTORY - The American Medical Association

"Examining the American Medical Association’s racist history and its overdue reckoning" PBS NewsHour 5/18/2021

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SUMMARY:  The national calls to action over racial justice have brought new awareness of past injustices in many parts of our society, including the fields of science and medicine.  Yamiche Alcindor speaks to Dr. Aletha Maybank the American Medical Association's chief health equity officer, about the organization's racist history, how it plans to reckon with it, and the intersection of race and medicine.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - Its Racist History

"How National Geographic is facing its racist history" PBS NewsHour 3/27/2018

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SUMMARY:  National Geographic has long provided a unique lens to view the world -- one that has sometimes distorted the lives of people of color.  Now the 130-year-old magazine turns the lens on itself, with an issue devoted to the topic of race, and an apology for past portrayals by editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg.  Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault sits down with Goldberg to discuss that reckoning.