When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

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A vivid and frank account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic.

No mini review for this one. I wouldn’t be able to do it justice. This was a very well researched and humanized take on the crack epidemic and the War on Drugs in the USA and how that disproportionately affected Black and Brown communities. Ramsey's writing was very accessible and the work outlined and contrasted different realities and perspectives extremely well.

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