Nicole Carr | The Price of Exclusion

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A landmark narrative revealing the untold history of Black medical professionals who have long fought to heal their communities

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ABOUT THE BOOKFrom award-winning journalist Nicole Carr comes a landmark narrative revealing the untold history of Black medical professionals who have long fought to heal their communities—while confronting a system built to exclude them.During the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Americans died at nearly twice the rate of their white counterparts—a disparity rooted not only in access to care but in a long history of exclusion, exploitation, and systemic racism. How did we get here, and why, despite generations of Black medical excellence, do these inequities persist? In The Price of Exclusion, journalist Nicole Carr uncovers that history and its urgent consequences, exposing the hidden toll of America’s refusal to value Black doctors and their patients.At the center is the extraordinary life of Carr’s great-grandfather, Dr. Lawrence St. Clair Ferguson, a Jamaican-born physician who served in World War I and attended medical school during the Spanish Flu pandemic. His journey from colonial Jamaica to a racially divided America provides both an intimate family portrait and a sweeping history of how Black physicians persevered despite segregation, erasure, and relentless barriers to practice.Through vivid storytelling and meticulous research, Carr resurrects the lives of pioneers who transformed medicine against impossible odds. From America’s first four-year medical school located at a historically Black college in North Carolina to the generations of Black physicians whose contributions were pushed aside by institutions of power, Carr shows how these figures were not only doctors but also advocates and innovators whose work reshaped public health and opened doors for those who followed.Carr also reveals the systemic campaigns that actively disempowered Black doctors, from the American Medical Association’s exclusionary policies to the devastating closures of Black medical schools after the Flexner Report. That legacy fuels today’s shortage of Black medical professionals and the lingering distrust in medicine that continues to cost lives.Bold, moving, and essential, The Price of Exclusion is both a necessary history and a testament to the resilience of Black medical pioneers past and present. At a moment when diversity, equity, and inclusion in medicine are under political attack, Carr forces us to reckon with the past while imagining a future where healthcare truly values every single life.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERSNICOLE CARR is an award-winning investigative journalist, professor, and speaker based in Atlanta, GA. Her work has explored the intersection of race, politics, education and democracy. Carr’s reporting has appeared in numerous national and local outlets including ProPublica, PBS Frontline, The Brooklyn Public Library’s Borrowed and Banned podcast, The Emancipator, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, various television stations and networks, as well as public media across the country. She is a four-time Emmy award winning journalist. Her long-form narrative investigation into the anti-DEI movement earned a 2023 Sidney Award and her essay commentary on the democratizing force of the historic Black press won a 2025 award in Op-Ed from the American Society of Authors and Editors . Carr teaches journalism at Morehouse College. She is a proud graduate of Winston-Salem State and Syracuse Universities and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Humanities at Clark Atlanta University. Carr, her husband and three children reside in Georgia. JOEL BROWN is co-anchor of ABC11 morning news from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m., as well as Eyewitness News at 10 a.m. An Emmy-nominated journalist, Joel joined the Eyewitness News team in 2011 and has since become a trusted voice for viewers across the Triangle and beyond. Before joining The Eyewitness News Team, Joel was the Washington-based correspondent for CBS NewsPath, the network's affiliate service. He spent nearly four years covering politics from The White House and Capitol Hill. He also traveled the country following national news stories, including weeks on the road covering the historic 2008 presidential election. And Joel was there live at Kennedy Space Center reporting on the final launch of NASA's space shuttle program. Joel spent 3 years in South Florida as a reporter and fill-in anchor for WSVN, Miami's innovative Fox affiliate. His "break-out" story came in 2005, covering the minute-by-minute details of the Terri Schiavo "right to die" case. He also got the chance to cover his share of tropical weather in Florida, including the '05 Hurricane season, which was the busiest on record. Before Miami, Joel began his career in television news at KETK, the NBC affiliate in Tyler, TX. When he left east Texas, he was the station's 5:00 anchor and education beat reporter.

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