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Brenau University expands its school of psychology and adolescent counseling; Local nonprofits work to combat homeless in metro Atlanta amid pandemic

Brenau University President Anne Skleder discusses the state of mental health access and care in Georgia and how her university is working to close the gap through several new initiatives.

Plus, Raphael Holloway, the CEO of Gateway Center, and Barry Dupree, a formerly homeless client of the Gateway Center, who is now living independently, Mellony Gaston, the social services director at the Atlanta Children's Shelter discuss the recent drop in Atlanta's homeless population and the ongoing efforts to find permanent housing for those in need.  

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Today is National HIV Testing Day. This year’s theme is “HIV Testing is self-care.” Tammy Kinney, an HIV/AIDS activist and the founder of Rural Women in Action, and Jenetter Richburg, the director of client services at AID Atlanta, discuss several topics, including prevention, testing and treatment.

We then revisit Rose’s 2017 conversation with Billy Howard. The famed Atlanta photographer recounts stories from some of the dying AIDS patients he photographed in the 1980s.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade.  On a special edition of “Closer Look” Rose talks with several guests about the overturning of the monumental case, which granted women the federal right to an abortion. Guest include Georgia State University law professors Tanya Washington and Anthony Michael Kreis, WABE politics reporters Rahul Bali and Sam Gringlas, Kwajelyn Jackson, the executive director of the Feminist Women’s Health Center (FWHC), Andrea Young, the executive director of the ACLU of Georgia, and State Senator Rev. Kim Jackson, and State Senator Jen Jordon.

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Dr. Andi Shane, the chief of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at Emory University School of Medicine and the medical director of infectious disease at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and Dr. Jacob Eichenberger, a pediatrician at Augusta University Medical Center, return to the program to discuss COVID vaccines being made available for children under the age of five.

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Criminal Defense Attorney and WABE Legal Analyst Page Pate discusses the Georgia Supreme Court's decision to overturn the murder conviction of Justin Ross Harris.

Dr. Sylvia Morris, an internal medicine specialist at Kaiser Permanente, discusses heat-related illnesses and prevention.

Plus, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race is fast approaching. “City Lights” producer Summer Evans, Charlie Patterson, a former cross-country coach for Piedmont College, and Anthony Strayhorn, an Atlanta-based personal development coach and owner of StrayFIT, discuss how they are preparing for the largest 10K in the world.

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Nicole Carr, a veteran investigative journalist and ProPublica reporter, joins “Closer Look” to discuss a reporting partnership between ProPublica and the PBS program Frontline that seeks to examine how anti-critical race theory activists are intimidating schools across the country.

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