50: #52: Glass Half Full: Best Practices for Teaching with an Anti-Deficit Framework with Dr. Chavon M. Onumah, MD, MPH, MEd

The book explores how the ideas 'what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker,' 'always trust your feelings,' and 'life is a battle between good people and evil people' have become embedded in American culture. These 'Great Untruths' contradict basic psychological principles and ancient wisdom, leading to a culture of safetyism that interferes with young people’s social, emotional, and intellectual development. The authors investigate various social trends, including fearful parenting, the decline of unsupervised play, and the impact of social media, as well as changes on college campuses and the broader context of political polarization in America.

Medical Apartheid details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals historical practices such as grave-robbing, unauthorized autopsies, and dissections, as well as the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of Blacks. The book also exposes shocking details about the government’s notorious Tuskegee experiment and similar medical atrocities conducted by various institutions. It provides the fullest possible context for understanding the roots of the African American health deficit and the deep distrust of the medical establishment among Black Americans.