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Rabb interviewed on NPR's 'Open Source' show

To listen to the unedited version of this radio interview for Open Source with Christopher Lydon, click here.

This interview focused on intersecting issues surrounding DNA testing, genealogy and social identity.

Rabb interviewed on NPR's 'Open Source' show on the plight of young Black men

This radio interview came about after a Open Source producer read my blog entry on Afro-Netizen complaining about the way the mainstream media continually chooses to pathologize Black people, particularly young Black men. In Erik Eckholm's disturbing and and all-too-familiar analysis of the modern-day "Negro problem" in his New York Times article published on March 20, 2006.

This show, hosted by Christopher Lydon, featured to two other guests: Professors Orlando Patterson and Ronald Mincy, both Black scholars at Harvard and Columbia, respectively. I participated during the last 20-minute segment of this hour-long radio show.