Replay: Spotlight on Black Health

Afro State of Mind by Lurie Daniel Favors provides a critical analysis of issues and current events impacting the Black community. Lurie is the author of Afro State of Mind: Memories of a Nappy Headed Black Girl, a story that uses one girl's experience with hair and colorism to explore race, history and identity.

This week Lurie continues her month long focus on health and wellness in the Black community. In this episode she speaks with director of the NYC Food and Fitness Partnership, Dara Cooper about the ways in which access to healthy foods is a defining issue in Black health. This episode orginally aired in January 2014.