Take My HandMontgomery, 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

and rendered in masterful detail

and why the poison of racism lingers

as Alice juggles an overprotective mom

Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin

when their own daughters' storylines intersect

Despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in her path

Condemned as terrorists and as a threat to America

and Nasir's finally coming home from doing a bullet on Riker's Island for a petty drug charge

experiences in the Black church

and in 2021 she won a Screen Actors Guild award for her role in 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'

An amazing tool for parents to foster confidence and self-esteem and for educators in teaching black history to early learners

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