Screening of The Power to Heal, with panel discussion
The video documentary The Power to Heal was screened at the Duke Trent Semans Center on April 18, 2018. The screening featured a panel with David Barton Smith, author of the book on which the documentary is based, and also C. Eileen Watts Welch and Brenda Armstrong, MD, whose fathers, respectively, Dr. Charles D. Watts, Sr. (1917-2004) and Dr. Wiley "Army" Armstrong (1931-1981), played a central role in the movement to desegregate hospitals first in North Carolina and then nationally.
The panelists affiliations are:
- David Barton Smith is Research Professor at the Dornsife School of Public Health School at Drexel University and Professor Emeritus in Health Administration at Temple. He assisted in the production of the film and will be available following the panel discussion to sign copies of his book.
- C. Eileen Watts Welch is Executive Director of Durham Colored Library, Inc., founded by Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore in 1918.
- Brenda Armstrong is Senior Associate Dean for Student Diversity, Recruitment & Retention, Duke School of Medicine and appears in the film.
- Jeffrey Baker, Professor of Pediatrics and History, and Director, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine moderated the session.
Link to the audio recording*. Contents, with time points:
- Jeffrey Baker begins his welcome and overview at 0:30 (i.e., 30 seconds from the start)
- Documentary the Power to Heal starts at 5:25 and ends at 1:00:45
- Jeffrey Baker introduces the panel portion of the program at 1:01:00
- David Barton Smith begins his remarks at 1:01:50
- Eileen Watts Welch begins her remarks at 1:09:00
- Brenda Armstrong begins her remarks at 1:22:45
- Eileen Watts Welch speaks for several more minutes at 1:38
- Jeffrey Baker makes concluding remarks at 1:41, and the panel ends at 1:42.
* Non-professionally recording by Victor Schoenbach. A Sony digital audio recorder was placed on the table from where the panelists spoke, so their voices were captured well; the audio for the moderator and the video itself are not as clear.