Black History Month 2022 Promotes Black Health and Wellness

This Black History Month, we focus on Black Health and Black Wellness as a nation to look at the work of Black scholars and medical practitioners, such as James McCune Smith, Daniel Hale Williams, Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Monroe Majors — the first Black person to pass the California medical examination in 1888 — and many more.

As the stark discrepancies in treatment for Black people continues to rage in our current healthcare system in the United States, discover what has been done and what remains to be done.

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This February, PBS SoCal and KCET will celebrate Black culture with a variety of programming and digital content that examines aspects of Black history in Southern California.

Specials include "American Masters: Marian Anderson," described by The New York Times as "one of the great singers of our time," and "America Reframed: Fannie Lou Hamer," featuring one of America's most fearless human rights activist.

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