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KPL Reading Together event addresses the legacy of racist medical practices in the U.S. - NowKalamazoo

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Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s 2023 novel “Take My Hand” is this year’s Reading Together selection. Photo by Tisha Pankop. When someone says, “take my hand,” there is an implicit trust that you are being led to a place that is safe. Not so for 11-year-old Erica and 13-year-old India, two of the key figures in Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s novel “Take My Hand,” as they are led into an Alabama hospital and sterilized without their consent. While their story is o…
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nowkalamazoo.org broke the news in on Tuesday, March 10, 2026.
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