How a Baltimore neuroscience study is rewriting Black America’s relationship with medical research

Well over 100 Black Baltimoreans donated the brains of their deceased loved ones for a study into genetics and neurological conditions and the factors that can affect them.

Priscilla Agnew-Hines will never be able to forget that day in early 2020. On March 26, just weeks after Covid-19 officially became a global pandemic, her son died from an overdose.

Larry, 41, was a chef, a drummer for his gospel church and the son who challenged Priscilla’s barbecue skills during summer cookouts. He also struggled with addiction. That, she knew. But what made him more prone to addiction?

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