The History Of The Crack Era From People Who Lived Through It

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The History Of The Crack Era From People Who Lived Through It

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Jul 13, 2023

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"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community.

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Jul 13, 2023

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