so let's take two of your coal authors, shall we say, serena williams and john kasich. what was the process like with each of them? with each one, it's a little bit different with each one as it happens, which isn't always the case. i spent time with them in their homes. i had dinner and breakfast in their homes. they stayed in their homes. and that's a very important foundational piece of the process. very often i'll start in on a project and i'll spend, you know, the first few sessions without a notepad, without a recorder, without my phone. these days, capturing an interview and governor kasich at one point said to me, are we working? what are you doing here? you flew all the way out to see me in ohio. let's get to work. and i said, look, we're working. i think you need to sort of walk in their shoes a little bit, see how they live, interact with them as they as they move back and forth in their lives with their family. with serena, i went and watched her practice. i went and watched her work. how we went for a run. and there was no tape running. there was no notepad

simone biles, and this is the basketball player, elena don, and elena don, and serena williams took dopingme, but this is not doping, these are medications recommended by them under therapeutic exceptions. but in general , an amazing case: the international olympic committee at the summer games in brazil allowed men to participate in women's competitions on a general basis. this is about transgender people. here's an example, eighteen-year-old mac becks, born a girl, but started taking testosterone in fifteen years to transform into a man, continues to compete in wrestling competitions in the women's division and continues to remain undefeated. in general , mock allows men to participate in women's competitions. the main thing is no doping. and here. photos of american gymnasts, you compare with russians, well, do you think you can build such muscles on oatmeal on salads, this is what norwegian skiers look like, they were brought to the olympics with 6,000 doses of asthma, they are sick people, they are allowed to take prohibited drugs because they are unhealthy, here is an idea: why not c

you have the cover story of vanity fair, serena williams talking about what happened in terms of hereatening preeclampsia with pregnancy. beyoncÉ. they have made this famous but it means some of the other black women -- why this disproportionate -- i think of eric garner in our studio, soim, died after her second child was born at 27? yes. what is very important for people to understand and what i wanted to do with this book is to really emphasize there is nothing biologically wrong with black people. there's nothing inherently wrong with us but there's something very wrong with the social institutions -- not just health care within our country -- that are deeply embedded with bias and racism. to the point where often when black patients interface with the held care system and professionals, our concerns are a good nord and minimized, even if we are like serena williams, the -- one of the greatest athletes of all times. she talks about being ignored by her medical team even after she had a history of a blood clot, telling them she was having similar symptoms. she was correct. she alm

oprah winfrey in the middle, jane fonda nearby, at the top you have got serena williams surrounded bys. including miley cyrus. cindy crawford has her daughter with her and they are not the only mother—daughter duo with kate moss also with her daughter in the same shoot. the man behind it is the outgoing editor and he became the first black male editor in 2017 and this was his first ever issue and this was his first ever issue and this will be his last. he said he chose women who reached beyond fashion and culture to change the fabric of society in the 2020s in ways small and large and positive and he described the months of planning it took to bring together the star—studded cast in a studio in new york last december. he said from london, new york, paris, milan, los angeles and beyond, they materialised as if from a dream and the notion that these women are in the notion that these women are in the same room at the same time is so unbelievable that british vogue published a video that showed it had actually happened and they had not been photographed separately and stitched together u

and you mentioned you're a fan of serena williams. is that right? >> i am. i'm a williams sister fan. i'm a tennis fan. i'm actually a fan of most sports. i grew playing sports. and in a family that understood that there is so much value and playing sports whether you're the best are not the best. >> i agree with you. i'm a fan of serena williams too. i think she's strong. i think she's powerful coming and i think she's beautiful. in 2013 serena williams stated if i were to play andy murray i would lose 6-0. 6-0 in 5 to 6 minutes. maybe 10 minutes. no, it's true. it's a completely different sport. the men are a lot faster. they serve harder. they had party harder. it's just a different game. it sounds like she doesn't think she could beat men either. but, let's talk about some of your comments. you said this is attacking, and dehumanizing on trans. how do you think ms. gaines felt? do you think she felt dehumanized being forced to undress in front of men in her sports? or, attacked? that's a yes or no question. being forced to undress in front of a man isn't

look at the image, kate moss is to one side, cindy crawford is right at the top of the image, serena williamsy of power. piers morgan is saying to the world, look how powerful what about who wasn't in that photo. all of the people that were in the photo were people who appeared in the magazine under edward enninful�*s editorship. of course these aren't all that the women that appeared in the magazine during his editorship, so perhaps one wonders where they are. but nonetheless an extraordinary gathering. taste are. but nonetheless an extraordinary gathering. we talk about iconic— extraordinary gathering. we talk about iconic images, _ extraordinary gathering. we talk about iconic images, but - extraordinary gathering. we talk about iconic images, but we - extraordinary gathering. we talk about iconic images, but we will| about iconic images, but we will look back at this and they will tell us who was in a pop culture, fashion, art, in movies. exactly. the idea he _ fashion, art, in movies. exactly. the idea he has _ fashion, art, in movies. exactly. the idea he has managed - fashion, art, in

communities, and that even our professional level of attainment socioeconomic statement as we know with serena williams, who is the greatest all-time athlete. that is not even protected for us. so i talk about missed appendicitis that i had, and how my mother died at a very early age from a rare cancer that she should not have gotten, but likely she developed as a result of environmental racism. >> she was just 47 years old. i know she's been an inspiration for you and for your twin sister, which both of you have been on the air here with us. you know, over time. and so, you know, in your case as a medical student, you weren't taken seriously. when you went into the er at the same time with your mom, even with her medical expertise, when she was trying to get treated for leukemia, a similar pattern, i mean, this is a cycle, a very painful cycle. >> it really is. and what happens is, we face racism, just in our everyday lives, that kind of puts a wear and tear on our bodies, it's called weathering. our researcher coined that term, but when we interface with health care professionals and the establishmen

i do now have for sure the largest collection of serena williams rookie cards, because, you know, sixi get back into the hobby, and i realize, well, if i'm married to picasso, i want to make sure all the great-grandkids get to have the collection. this is a very valuable card. this is her most valuable card. but i also have, like, the first video game i ever bought, and it's a sealed copy, no one in the world would want this game other than me, because it reminds me of a whole world that opened up to me thanks to video games, which got me into program, which got me into r reddit and everything else. it can be purely sentimental, it can be, you know, a long-term investment that you'll never sell. but what's so fun is, i think, for a whole generation of us, we get to tap back into something from our youth that just brings us joy. like any other piece of culture or art would. >> people love collectibles. they just love them. right? >> well, it takes you back to, you are at a game with your father, you went to a concert with your mom, and to be able to have the ticket stub, or something t

and we see that even with well- known people like serena williams, who almost died postpartum from alot in her long, because her medical team did not listen to her. >> yeah, i have to say, congrats on that whole harvard medical school. like your sister, you are following your mother's footsteps, she must be incredibly proud of you to have done that. but, let me speak about the cdc, which says home births among black women increased 21% from 2020 to 2021. how did the pandemic and the black lives matter movement play into that jump? >> yeah you know, i think that the pandemic and blm, it revealed the deep fissures within our alpha care system, especially as they relate to how black people are cared for. and i think it's important to understand, the black maternal mortality rate is worse today than it was 20 years ago. and that is despite advancements, innovation, technology, and research. so people are opting for home birth, because there are increased complications, when you have an inhospitable birth or most high income nations, most first-time birthing people have their deliveries a

the example i sometimes give is that both lebron james and serena williams occupy a space that most ofies a space that even lebron doesn't know, which is to say she can be completely dominant, maybe the greatest athlete of all-time, but also be reduced to maybe her sexuality, maybe reduced to things that are out of the sport and disrespected in the same breath. i feel like a woman was able to -- a black woman in particular was able to capture all that new once, and then her partner needed to be someone who could understand that situation fully. and so that's how it came to be. >> seth: this is a, in many ways, a brutal story and a violent story, and yet there's a real humanity in the love between these two characters >> yeah. >> seth: is that a balance you know you have to have when you're writing a book like this? because you are going to make people face things that they are potentially squeamish about, but you also want to have this through line where they have to care deeply about these characters >> yeah, i'm squeamish about them too like, i've never watched, like, a "saw" movie o

whose bodies have been more examined and demonized for we have seen that with my fan favorite, serena williams, whose body is often talked about. that sort of challenges them for who they are. if it is codified as something we would expect to see more of of. >> is also deeply intersects with a secondary issue which is, racial bias in the medical field. when we have vast proportions of populations that have been studied and tested and are not racially or otherwise identity- based representative of the broader u.s. population. so what gets determined as a norm often times gets pegged to largely white populations that have been studied and then black women and girls are then further subject to marginalization. this has been your experience and what you have seen as well, right? >> that is correct. >> and so, we are supposed to sit here on this side and, to the ranking members point, see a party that has voted against women's access to abortion and voted against our right for the willie led better pay act and voted against the violence against women act and voted against our right to have access t

she's the first woman since serena williams in 2015 to win a wta event three successive times.rame after missing the opportunity to do so in the opening frame of his semifinal againstjohn higgins, then received a huge ovation from the crowd in llandudno. it's the first maximum break of the tournament. a huge ovation from the crowd there. martin o'donnell reached the final by beating elliott slessor. he hit a terrific break of his own, 126 in the deciding frame to reach his first ranking final, winning 6—5. stay across that final on the bbc sport website and iplayer from 12:45 this afternoon. dwain chambers' return to the british indoor athletics championships at the age of 45 took him as far as the semifinals of the 60 metres in birmingham. running from lane one on the right, chambers, who once won the world title in this event, finished last in his semi final, which was won by eventual championjeremiah azu, who's less than half chambers' age. the performance of the day came in the women's pole vault. commonwealth games silver medallist molly caudery produced a personal best to