A first-of-its kind, a heart-thymus transplant, is a success (NPR’s Morning Edition)

A Morning Edition tape & copy story that I helped produce about a pediatric surgery team at Duke University successfully performing a heart transplant and a thymus tissue transplant from the same donor, one-year-old Easton Sinnamon. By transplanting both, the odds of rejection by the body may be reduced. Click here to hear what the lead surgeon and the Easton’s mother had to say.

Toni Morrison’s only short story is available in book form for the first time (NPR’s Morning Edition)

A Morning Edition tape and copy story that I helped produce about the late Nobel laureate and novelist Toni Morrisons’ only short story “Recitatif” being released as a book. The story is about two girls, one Black and one white, but doesn’t reveal which is which. Click here to hear University of Oaklahoma professor Honorée Fanonne Jeffers talk about Morrisons’ latest release.