“Take My Hand” by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is a fictionalized retelling of a 1970s Supreme Court case concerning the sterilization of two sisters, ages 12 and 14, in Montgomery, Alabama. While examining ...

Newly graduated from Tuskegee, Civil Townsend takes on her first job as a nurse at the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic in 1973. She’s ready to make a difference and help the women in her community, ...

Some things, well, you just make them your own. You know it happens when you just can’t let something go. You turn it over in your mind six ways daily, and talk about it until everybody around you’s ...