![]() Inspired by true events, Perkins-Valdez has crafted a riveting combination of family conflict and courtroom drama. Yet that’s not the worst that’s done in the name of public health. ![]() She’s eager to serve her community and aghast when she realizes she’s part of a vast government program to force experimental contraceptives on unsuspecting Black girls as young as eleven. We see them through the lens of a compassionate, recently graduated nurse named Civil Townsend, whose first job entails working at a family planning clinic. Take My Hand is the story of two young Black girls, Erica and India, who live a hardscrabble life in Alabama in 1973. I listened to Elton John with my best friend, wore saddle-back jeans that happily have never come back into fashion, and stayed out late on summer nights playing kickball with the neighborhood kids.Īs you read Perkins-Valdez’s latest, I urge you to consider your own tweenhood. ![]() As a tween in the 1970s, my life was small and protected. ![]()
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