165 - Wes Moore on Freddie Gray, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and Why Policing is only Part of the Problem
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author Wes Moore remembers the feelings of heartache, anger, and complicity following Freddie Gray's funeral. Five years later, the Black Lives Matter movement has shown that the issue is much bigger than Baltimore and its policing. Moore talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how the police were the last in a long line of systems to fail Gray throughout his life, how Black Lives Matter means addressing all stages of the lifecycle of Black people, why COVID-19 is life or death for many, and how to get people to pay attention and create change.
KEYWORDS: racial disparity; social determinants of health; health equity
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:11.6 | Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:18.8 | and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:21.8 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence and experience to the public health news of the day |
| 0:27.3 | through informative interviews with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public |
| 0:32.5 | health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at |
| 0:39.8 | Public Health Question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast |
| 0:47.8 | episodes. Today, I speak to Wes Moore, a best-selling author, social entrepreneur, military veteran, and the CEO of Robin Hood, |
| 0:57.6 | one of the largest organizations fighting poverty in the country. His most recent book tells the |
| 1:03.1 | story of what happened in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray five years ago. We talk about the |
| 1:08.9 | lessons from that experience that resonate with meaning today. |
| 1:13.2 | Let's listen. It's an honor to have you, Wes, join me on the podcast today. I reached out to you |
| 1:19.6 | because of your great new book, Five Days, The Fury Reckoning of an American City, which you wrote |
| 1:25.1 | with this terrific journalist, Erica Green. |
| 1:33.1 | It's been five years after the unrest and uprising in Baltimore that followed the death of Freddie Gray. |
| 1:34.6 | I'd like to start by asking why you wrote this book. |
| 1:38.5 | Yeah, so it's a real pleasure to be on you, and thanks so much, Josh. |
| 1:41.8 | And, you know, I wrote the book because there are many |
| 1:45.7 | feelings and emotions that I was still very much wrestling with you know feelings of of heartache |
| 1:51.6 | and disappointment feelings of of anger feelings of complicity to what happened you know I remember |
| 1:58.6 | I was at Freddie Gray's funeral. |
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