In this intimate podcast episode, Dr. Smith sits down with Miguel to talk about Dr. Smith’s involvement in the National Guard’s Guard-Recruiting Assistance Program (G-RAP) and the thousands of men and women who have been wrongly indicted by the Federal Government for fraud.

To read more about G-RAP, click here.

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To read the New York Times article about G-RAP, click here.
Dr. Darron Smith and Miguel Barker-Valdez

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    Dr. Darron T. Smith is a faculty member at the University of Memphis in the Department of Sociology. He is frequent political and cultural contributor for Huffington Post on various issues of inequality in the form of racism, classism and other systems of U.S. based oppression. He has also contributed to various forums from Religion Dispatches and ESPN's Outside the Lines to The New York Times and Chicago Tribune op-ed sections. Dr. Smith’s research spans a wide myriad of topics on including healthcare disparities, Religious Studies, Race & Sports, Stress & Mindfulness, Transracial Adoption and the Black Family. His current research focuses on healthcare workforce discrimination involving African American physician assistants. His is the author of, When Race, Religion & Sports Collide: Blacks Athletes at BYU and Beyond, was recently released to critical praise in November 2016.

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