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com. I've been looking forward to this Saturday matinee for a while, just a week.

I've been looking forward to this Saturday matinee for a while.

Just a week or two ahead of Black History Month, please let me introduce you to the

source of all black knowledge, Dr. Ray's a friend of mine, and I suppose we met on Twitter back when it was

called Twitter and still a place you could meet amazing people like Ray. But we've met in

person too. Ray's a storyteller and a podcaster, and a father, and a husband, and a veteran,

an ex paratrooper with bad knees and a doctor of education.

He's got a story for every occasion, which is perhaps why he's also a ten-time

moth story slam champion. But his are all earned stories. They're part of his personal history

from a life lived hard and long and wonderfully.

They're also thankfully part of our history because in each of Ray's stories is a deep

vein of rich ore reaching back decades centuries. This is history at your

uncle's knee. It's wisdom as much as it is fact. And after every episode, like every time I talk with Ray, I find I've learned and grown.

On today's Saturday matinee, I'm proud to bring you Ray's episode on Black Medicine.

Why do Black Americans have a

disproportionately low vaccination rate? Why do they have a

disproportionately higher risk of bad health outcomes? What does

Tuskegee have to do with it or rotten fish heads for that matter?

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