The C. O. W. S. w/ Kevin Hazzard: American Sirens #FreedomHouse #Pittsburgh

The C.O.W.S. (Context of White Supremacy) Radio Program welcomes Kevin Hazzard. A journalist, TV writer, and former paramedic, Hazzard worked as an EMT on mean streets and crack dens of Atlanta, Georgia. He wrote about this experience in his memoir, A Thousand Naked Strangers. We’ll discuss his more recent offering, American Sirens: The Incredible Story Of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics. This book focuses on the mean streets of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - with a splash of Baltimore, Maryland. We hear about the genesis of the EMT and paramedic profession. Hazzard documents the upheaval of the 1960’s which included painfully slow efforts to improve ambulance care. A collection of black males were recruited to Pittsburgh’s Freedom House to begin intense training to drastically improve the quality of care patients receive during a medical emergency before they reach the hospital. These black males endured all of the typical humiliations, deprivations and White Supremacists abuse, but they were committed to healing the black residents of Pittsburgh's Hill District. After nearly a decade of devoted, nearly unparalleled medical care… they were kicked to the curb, replaced with mostly incompetent white staff, and forgotten. #LenBias #TheHillDistrict #TheCOWS13 INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943#