ALONDRA NELSON INTERVIEWED ON NPR'S 'CODE SWITCH' REGARDING THE HISTORY OF SICKLE CELL ANEMIA
Sociologist Alondra Nelson was a featured guest on the NPR program 'Code Switch' where she discussed the history of the disease sickle cell anemia and consciousness around the disease in the US.
GENE DEMBY, HOST:
What's good, y'all? You're listening to CODE SWITCH. I'm Gene Demby. Shereen is out this week. So late last year on the podcast, during one of the Songs Giving Us Life segments, we remembered the life of Prodigy from Mobb Deep. And for those of y'all who don't know, Mobb Deep was a big-ass deal in the 1990s. They had this bleak, gritty sound that, in a lot of ways, would come to define East Coast hip-hop for years to come. This very dope instrumental you're listening to right now, that's from their song "Quiet Storm."
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