When Crack Was King science Essence Magazine

Essence Magazine

her blood runs gold

the creation of Route 66

from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North

When Crack Was King science Essence MagazineLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A vivid and frank (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a communitys ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities.The Washington Post A poignant and compelling re examination of a tragic era in America