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