In 2008 the AMA issued a formal apology to the nation’s African American physicians for its decades of racial discrimination. Through her scholarship, Harriet A. Washington, a writing fellow in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, was largely responsible for making that happen. Washington, along with Marshala R. Lee and Jeffrey A. Miron, will discuss how licensing can become a tool to affect racist ends.

Hear Akyol discuss the leading themes in his book, with commentary by Jack Miles, a professor, a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, and one of the country’s most prominent voices on religion.