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Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, never thought they would be anything other than doctors. In the 1980s, their mother led an organization of black women doctors, and for years the girls watched these extremely intelligent women in white coats care for their patients and neighbors, organize community health fairs, cure diseases and save lives.
What Dr. Uché Blackstock didn't understand as a child – or learn at Harvard Medical School, where she and her sister had followed in their mother's footsteps, making them the first black mother-daughter legacies of school – it was the deep, long-standing systemic inequities that mean that only 2% of all American doctors today are black women; the racist practices and policies that ensure Black Americans have far worse health outcomes than any other group in the country; and the flawed system that endangers the well-being of communities like theirs. As an emergency room physician and then professor of academic medicine, Dr. Blackstock became acutely aware of the systemic barriers that black patients and doctors continue to face.
Legacy is a journey to the critical intersection of racism and health care. At once a scathing critique of our health care system, a generational family memoir, and a call to action, Legacy is Dr. Blackstock's odyssey, from child to medical student to practicing physician – and finally taking her own power as an advocate for health equity against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Dr. Uché Blackstock is a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in health care. She appears regularly on-air as an MSNBC medical contributor and is the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, as well as a former associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and former faculty director for recruitment, retention and inclusion in the Office of Diversity Affairs at the NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Blackstock earned her undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University, making her and her twin sister, Oni, Harvard Medical School's first black mother-daughter legacy. Dr. Blackstock currently lives in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, with his two school-age children.
Dr. Blackstock will speak with Eugene Scott. Eugene Scott is a senior politics reporter for Axios focusing on the 2024 elections. An award-winning journalist, Scott has spent two decades covering politics at the local, national and international levels and frequently travels the country to lecture on related issues to politics and the media. Most recently, he was a national politics reporter at the Washington Post focusing on identity politics. In addition to writing, Scott regularly provides political analysis on MSNBC, CBS and NPR. After the 2020 presidential election, he hosted The Next Four Years, Amazon's top original podcast. And he contributed a chapter to FOUR HUNDRED SOULS: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, which topped the New York Times bestseller list. Before becoming a member of the Institute of Politics at Georgetown University, Scott covered national politics for CNN. He began his journalism career at the Cape Argus in Cape Town, South Africa, shortly after beginning his journalism career at BET News' Teen Summit. Scott received his master's degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and his bachelor's degree from the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina. He is a native of Washington DC and continues to live in the nation's capital.
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