Essence Magazine:
By Lynnette Nicholas ·Updated July 11, 2022
In the New York Times bestselling historical fiction novel Take My Hand, professor Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of the acclaimed books Wench and Balm, offers a warm, yet honest welcome to revisit an achingly familiar moment in America’s past when Black female bodies weren’t protected.
When Civil Townsend, a nurse and recent Tuskegee University graduate takes a job at a family planning clinic, she
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