Eight Forty-Eight takes a …

Eight Forty-Eight takes a …

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Eight Forty-Eight takes a break this week to bring you an episode from Radio Lab.

When the human genome was first fully mapped in 2000, Bill Clinton, Craig Venter, and Francis Collins took the stage and pronounced that “The concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis.” Great words spoken with great intentions. But what does that mean and where does it leave us? It doesn’t seem to have wiped out our evolving conversation about race.