Filling Your Garden with Native Plants, Looking at the Role of Race in Medicine

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 31, 2016

Gerard Lordahl and Pete Muroski tell us how to restore native plant and animal populations through landscaping. Jessie Mueller stars in "Waitress," a new Broadway musical. Cocktail historian David Wondrich on his article, "The Cunningest Compounders of Beverages: The Hidden History of African-Americans Behind the Bar.” Dr. Damon Tweedy discusses his memoir, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine. 

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