Kyle Whitmire: Domestic And Child Abuse In The South
Ray Rice, Mark Fuller, and Adrian Peterson. All of these men have been in the headlines in recent weeks for issues involving domestic or child abuse. As these acts of violence keep resurfacing in the news cycle we’re left wondering: what needs to change in our culture to make the abuse stop? Kyle Whitmire of Al.com and the Birmingham News joins us now to discuss.
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Try this when your doctor says ‘yes’ to a preventive test but insurance says ‘no’
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