The Artists of Marys Seacole

Season 6 Series: A discussion with the artists of Marys Seacole with Eric Ruffin, Felicia Curry, Kim Bey, and special guest Dr. Martha A. Dawson, President of the National Black Nurses Association.

Pulitzer Prize Winner Jackie Sibblies Drury celebrates the complex legacy of care-giving and frontline nursing on the battlefield of trauma, crisis, and war. Mary Seacole, an ambitious Jamaican woman determined to live a grand life of service, traverses oceans and eras as she and her descendants contend with layers of racial disparity and inequity when considering who gets treatment first in times of crisis, and who is left to console whom.