Do It Now (with Dr. Kristen Nwanyanwu)
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4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
DeRay, Myles, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week— including Black people enslaved long after Emancipation Proclamation, a Missouri art gallery celebrating Black History Month, and the life and death of the true "Godmother of Funk". DeRay interviews Dr. Kristen Nwanyanwu about her work as an vitreoretinal surgeon and her research on health disparity and treatment gaps for Black people and people of color.
Myles https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60330415
De’Ara https://khqa.com/news/local/black-history-month-art-exhibit-featured-in-hannibal
DeRay https://www.vice.com/en/article/437573/blacks-were-enslaved-well-into-the-1960s
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Dere. |
| 0:05.0 | And we're going to pass into people. |
| 0:06.6 | In this episode, it's me, Dior Amal's, as you know, talking about the unreported news |
| 0:11.6 | of the week, the under-reported news of the week, and the news that you probably should |
| 0:15.3 | know before everything you're probably going to hear about. |
| 0:18.0 | And I sit down with this incredible surgeon to talk about all things eyes. |
| 0:24.2 | I learned so much with Dr. Kristen Wangimoo, who's the Assistant Pressive Optimology and |
| 0:29.1 | Visual Science at Yale University. |
| 0:30.6 | I mean, there were things that I had thought about before, but I didn't really know about, |
| 0:34.7 | but she taught me y'all. |
| 0:36.6 | And she taught me so much about the eyes, especially in relation to medical conditions like diabetes, |
| 0:40.3 | which disproportionately affect black and brown people. |
| 0:42.4 | There's a lot to learn, and I cannot wait to share with you. |
| 0:45.2 | So she don't like us your mother. |
| 0:46.8 | My advice for your week is to have the conversation good, bad, and between sooner than later. |
| 0:52.0 | Like, tell the people you love them, tell the people it's not working, ask the questions |
| 0:55.8 | to it now, because you let all this stuff fester and sit. |
| 0:58.6 | And then it's just a nightmare later. |
| 1:00.0 | I've had such good, you know, I work every, every Monday we do shout outs, and it's so great, |
| 1:06.0 | because, you know, there's so many people working on our team, and people do such cool stuff |
| 1:11.9 | that like at a point, you really do need to sit back and be like, I really appreciate |
| 1:15.4 | the way you do that. |
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