Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Job. And I go by the name, Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circles. We're going to learn how to become better allies to each other. So join us each Saturday

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Happy Saturday. An upcoming episode of the show is going to talk a bit about the development of the first

effective treatment for leprosy, also called Hansen's disease, to be used in U.S. territory.

That work happened in Hawaii in the early 20th century, and we have a past episode related

to the history of Hanson's disease in Hawaii, So to provide a little more context for that upcoming discussion,

we are running it as today's Saturday classic.

At the end of this classic,

we talk about people still living at the formal leprosarium at Kalaupapa as of 2016,

which was when this episode originally came out,

and discussions of what to do with that site.

Efforts are underway to build a memorial there, including legislation granting $5 million of funding for that, which was in 2022.

As of May of 2024, eight patients from the Klau Papa Registry were still living in both Klauapa and Oahu, and also often traveling in between those two places.

This episode originally came out on March 2, 2016. Enjoy.

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy B. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.

It has been quite a while since Hawaiian history made an appearance

on our podcast. Back in 2010, Katie and Sarah covered a long arc of Hawaii's history from its

unification under Kameha Meha, the Great, which was completed in 1810, to the overthrow of its last

monarch, Lily Ulo Kalani, which was only 83 years later.

And that was at the hands of American business interests with the support of United States troops.

Today's episode is connected to that history, but those two shows from the archive, while totally are worth listening to, aren't really required listening to understand what we're talking about today.

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