The Tavis Smiley Show transcripts -> Covenant Week: Health and Covenant Week: Environment

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January 13 at 11:50am ·

Dr. Keith Wailoo, alongside Robert F. Kennedy on The Tavis Smiley Show to discuss health equity in America: http://www.pbs.org/video/2365642034/

TRANSCRIPT (green font link): http://ow.ly/X0WpW
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/covenant-week-health-robert-f-kennedy-jr-keith-wailoo/

COVENANT WEEK – Health
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. & Keith Wailoo
Aired: 01/10/16

Ten years after the publication of The Covenant with Black America, the renowned environmental and consumer advocate, and the esteemed Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University discuss the health disparities among minority communities.

Prof. Keith Wailoo is the Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. The former Vice Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, Wailoo's award-winning research on sickle-cell anemia and the politics of race and health changed the way we view that disease. In his latest text, Pain: A Political History, he explores the widening gaps between the two Americas -- that of the overmedicated and that of the under-treated.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is one of the country's most influential environmental and consumer advocates. For his efforts as the Hudson Riverkeeper Fund's chief prosecuting attorney, he was named one of Time magazine's "Heroes for the Planet." He's also board chair of the Waterkeeper Alliance, works with the Natural Resources Defense Council and is an environmental law professor at Pace Law School. Kennedy has written various articles and books on environmental issues and took on mountain-top removal mining in his documentary, The Last Mountain. He recently edited the book, Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak, which examined the reality of mercury toxicity in some vaccines.

More: http://wws.princeton.edu/faculty-research/faculty/kwailoo

http://www.pbs.org/video/2365644947/

COVENANT WEEK: Environment
Erin Brockovich & Wendell Pierce
Aired: 01/13/16

The renowned environmental advocate, and the esteemed actor, author, and Tony-winning producer discuss the disproportionate amount of environmental risk experienced by minority communities.

TRANSCRIPT: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/covenant-week-the-environment-erin-brockovich-wendell-pierce/