Hope & Wellness 's Podcast

Professor Joseph Richardson is an associate professor of Race, Health , Social Policy, Community and Urban Studies in the Dept of African American Studies at the University of Maryland. He live tweets his class," The New Jim Crow" via Twitter @UmdProfaasp187. He joins us to discuss his quest to reduce intentional injuries and continue research in violence prevention at Prince Georges hospital. We also discuss new legislation with criminal justice reform, the rising human costs of synthetic marijuana and the lasting individual and community effects of mass incarceration. Also, Dr. Julius Green discusses the chemistry behind K2, aka synthetic marijuana,, which has been linked to increasing community violence..