Report from South Carolina; Social Media and Public Health; Mayor Eric Adams; Dr. Uché Blackstock

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On today’s show:

    Meg Kinnard, national politics reporter at The Associated Press, writer of their ‘Ground Game’ newsletter and a South Carolina resident, With the next presidential primary taking place in South Carolina, shares her reporting and analysis on the politics of the Palmetto State, including the issues that voters there care most about, and how they feel about the fact that their former governor, Nikki Haley, is on the ballot.
    In his State of the City, Mayor Adams declared social media to be a public health hazard, like guns and tobacco. Katherine Keyes, professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, talks about what her research has shown on the good and bad effects of social media.
    NYC Mayor Eric Adams discusses his administration’s work on housing, why they are calling social media a public health hazard and the disagreement with City Council over the “How Many Stops Act.”
    Uché Blackstock, physician, founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, and the author of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine (Viking, 2024), shares the story of becoming, and practicing as, a Black female physician and how race and racism affect healthcare for patients.

 

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