Professor, mother, wife, and investigative journalist, Nicole Carr will add a new role to her already impressive list when her first book, “The Price of Exclusion: The pursuit of healthcare in a segregated nation” debuts on June 16.
The book, Carr’s first, is described as “the untold history of Black medical professionals who have long fought to heal their communities while confronting a system built to exclude them”.
Carr has spent her career unearthing stories that, for whatever reason, were being kept in the dark. Her series of stories on school board meetings gone wrong, “Chaos at the School Board,” shone a light on how routine meetings can become the worst day in someone’s life. Investigative reporting is at the heart of “The Price of Exclusion”. Carr travels domestically and internationally in order to dive into what it took for Black physicians to break into the field. From Raleigh, North Carolina, to rural South Georgia to New York, Texas, and Port Antonio, Jamaica, the reporting in the book provides readers with stories of both victory and defeat.
In many cases, like in Hancock County, Georgia, the lack of Black doctors (in the United States, only 5% of doctors are Black) comes from the lack of a local hospital. There isn’t a full-service hospital in Hancock County, population 8,600. Residents rely on clinics and old-school remedies.
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