Black Moms On the Front Lines Ep. 1: Twin Doctors Uché and Oni Blackstock Are Battling Structural Racism in Healthcare
Yes, Girl!
ESSENCE PODCAST NETWORK
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Yes, Girl! podcast presents, On the Frontlines - a celebration of Black women who are taking care of our families...and theirs too. These beautiful souls are more than essential, they are powerful.
Our first episode shines a spotlight on two incredible doctors. They have an incredible family legacy of Black women physicians committed to serving marginalized and immunocompromised communities. Drs. Uché (@uche_blackstock) and Oni Blackstock (@DrOniBee) serve as an emergency physician and primary care physician respectively. We're proud to amplify their stories and their words of advice and encouragement to the masses as physicians, mothers, and fighters for social justice.
- Yes Girl! On The Front Lines Hosts: Cori Murray (@corimurray) + Charli Penn (@charlipenn)
- Executive Producer: Tiffany Ashitey (@misstiffsays)
- Associate Producers: Ashley J. Hobbs (@ashleylatruly) + Shantel Holder (@shadesofshan_)
- Bookings: Cori Murray + Charli Penn + Tiffany Ashitey + Ashley J. Hobbs + Shantel Holder
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- Music: Gold Standard Creative (@gscdotnyc)
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| 0:00.0 | Yes Girl Podcast Presents on the Front Lines, |
| 0:03.3 | a celebration of black women who are taking care of our families and theirs too. |
| 0:08.1 | These beautiful souls are more than essential. |
| 0:10.5 | They are powerful. We've had the opportunity to talk to some phenomenal women. We're kicking it off with |
| 0:28.6 | two women whose excellence and commitment to saving lives actually runs in the family. |
| 0:34.0 | Harvard educated twin doctors, Dr Uche, and Dr. Oney Blackstock. |
| 0:39.0 | Their mother was also a Harvard educated doctor, |
| 0:41.0 | and they're on the show today to just talk about their journey as doctors and what it's like on the front line. |
| 0:46.0 | Dr Ute Blackstock is the founder of Advancing Health Equity where she fights to provide equitable care to every patient. |
| 0:54.0 | And as we know, communities of color are especially taken for granted in health care. |
| 0:58.4 | And as a black woman, I stand because we need all the advocacy we can get. |
| 1:03.0 | Dr UJ is also a board certified emergency medicine |
| 1:07.0 | on the ground at an emergency care center in Brooklyn, New York. |
| 1:10.0 | Who else do we have with us today, Charlie? |
| 1:12.0 | We also have UJ's twin sister. Who else do we have with us today, Charlie? |
| 1:16.5 | We also have Uche's twin sister, Dr. Oni Blackstock. I love their names. |
| 1:18.0 | Dr. Oni Blackstock is a primary care physician and assistant commissioner |
| 1:22.1 | for the New York City Health |
| 1:23.3 | Department's Bureau of HIV, which as we all know that's an immunocompromised |
| 1:27.7 | community. She's been on the front lines treating HIV patients for over 14 |
| 1:32.2 | years and now she provides knowledge to keep treating HIV patients for over 14 years. |
| 1:33.0 | And now she provides knowledge |
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