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Today with Dr. Kaye: Normalize Black self-care

BALTIMORE, MD (WEAA) — During Dr. Kaye’s ‘weekly wrap’, she addresses a number of matters impacting the Black community. 

 

One of the topics Dr. Kaye talks about is the allostatic load, the “wear and tear on the body” caused by repeated and prolonged chronic stress, and how it is linked to racial discrimination. 

 

 

Click below to listen to the conversation

  For the second hour of the show, click here. 

  

Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead is an associate professor of Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland and the award-winning author of Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis; a featured Public Commentator for WYPR and Op-Ed columnist for the Baltimore Sun; a K-12 master teacher in African American History; an award-winning curriculum writer and lesson plan developer; an award-winning former Baltimore City middle school teacher; and, a three-time New York Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker.