Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez and use it for good

and use it for good

intergenerational storytelling

That is what it means to be a troublemaker

cultivated revolution

Coates delivers a stirring call to self-determination

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez and use it for goodMontgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she hopes to help women shape their destinies, to make their own choices for their lives and bodies. But when her first week on the job takes her along a dusty country road to a worn down one room cabin, Civil is shocked to learn that her new patients, Erica and