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Celebrated social reformer, abolitionist, writer and statesman Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland, in 1818. Two hundred years later, Club member Carlisle Hashim began a Frederick Douglass podcast series about the Great Liberator. Her compelling 16-episode series includes interviews with three Douglass descendants and a Cork, Ireland, scholar, as it traces

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University of Maryland School of Medicine professor and genetic epidemiologist Dr. Braxton Mitchell has spent nearly three decades studying health and disease in the Amish population, a unique community that has yielded transformative insights into the genetic and environmental determinants of conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and aging. Dr. Mitchell’s work has broad relevance