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Ancestral veneration as we author our stories
Carr’s great-parents and distant cousins in Jamaica. Date unknown. (photo credit: Nicole Carr)
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October 11, 2026-One Sunday morning several years ago, and sometime early in the book writing process, I stopped sweeping the dining ro...
At the Vanguard, Black health and HBCU education
FORTIFY-October 10, 2026
“In the development of the racial hospitals a great deal of pioneer courage was shown.”
-Dr. John A. Kenney, Sr. medical director, Tuskegee Institute, 1941 as seen in the At the Vanguard exhibit at Clark Atlanta U...
A book dedicated to my father
Carr and her father bookmarking a photo of their ancestor, Dr. Lawrence St. Clair Ferguson. Dr. Ferguson’s story is the narrative throughline for Carr’s debut book, The Price of Exclusion: The Pursuit of Healthcare in a Segregated Nation. P...
On Black doctors, war and freedom
Lt. Colonel Alexander T. Augusta, Civil War Surgeon, c. 1863 (Photo Credit: Oblate Sisters of Providence via The National Parks Service-www.nps.gov)
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June 19, 2026 (Juneteenth and Pub Week for The Price of Exclusion)
Washington, D...
WATCH: Pub Day and community rooted in history. The Price of Exclusion is here.
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June 16, 2026 (Pub Day)- Today you can finally read or listen to my debut book, The Price of Exclusion: The Pursuit of Healthcare in a Segregated Nation. Your engagement with this story is a contribution to preserving history, conf...
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