Fieldnote 25: Black Men’s Health & Healing in the Academy | Dr. Raymond Adams on Prostate Cancer, Wellness, and Social Work

In this episode of Writing What I Like: Fieldnotes of a Black Woman Scholar, Dr. Mildred Boveda (YouTube: @mboveda) and I are joined by Dr. Raymond Adams, a Black male social work professor whose research sheds critical light on prostate cancer and the health experiences of Black men. Dr. Adams brings a powerful voice to the intersection of public health, wellness, and academic life—unpacking the ways that systemic inequities shape Black men’s access to care, and how his scholarship is both a personal and political act of resistance. Together, we explore how Black men navigate wellness in the context of racialized medicine, how Dr. Adams brings his research into the classroom to shape a new generation of social workers, and why education must contend with the embodied realities of the communities it aims to serve. This conversation reminds us that health justice is, in fact, educational justice, and that the academy must be a space where both can thrive. Tune in as we talk research, resistance, and rewriting the script on Black men's wellness—one fieldnote at a time.