This is the war and peace report. I'm Amy Goodman with Nirmine Shech. This is the first day of Black History Month. We're talking to Dr Uchee Blackstock, part two of our conversation with the emergency medicine physician, CEO and founder of Advancing Health Equity, a company that works with health care

organizations to fight racism and bias and services.

Dr. Blackstock has written a new book.

It's called Legacy.

A Black physician reckons with racism in medicine.

You know, Dr. Blackstock, I wanted to go back

to really the beginning of our part one conversation but to really give

you time to tease out your life story your mother this pioneering black woman physician who dies at such a young age gives

birth to you and Oney to Dr. Oney O'Chae Blackstock following in her footsteps and all the issues that you took

on through the years. One of the things you talk about in legacy is the fact that 2% of America's doctors are African American

women.

Just 2% and yet the mortality rate for example just when it comes to black

maternal health is so disproportionate.

Yes so yeah so I'm happy to talk a little bit about my mother. You know, when I was

younger I thought that all physicians were black or black women like that's that's the kind of exposure that I had

with my mother so she she was born in central Brooklyn to a single mom my mother

had five other siblings and you know they were raised on public assistance.

They had a very, very difficult life.

Moving a lot, food insecurity, changing schools.

But my mother, she was very, very determined.

She was very intellectually curious.

And she was fortunate enough to end up at Brooklyn College and had a chemistry professor there who saw her

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