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Parenting Series, Part 1: Dr. Alvin Poussiant

In the first of a week-long series on parenting in America, NPR's Tavis Smiley talks to Dr. Alvin Poussiant, a renowned psychiatrist and observer of the black family for many years, about some of the challenges of raising children.

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