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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 20h

This time last week, I was carrying my first book award around Harlem+presenting it to a spirit. I’d been led to Harlem years ago through an ancestral connection that involved my great-grandfather, Zora Neale Hurston and an apartment building on 145th: nicolefcarr.substack.com/p/ancestral-...

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Ancestral veneration as we author our stories

Last weekend, I landed in Harlem to accept the first book award for The Price of Exclusion. Sunday morning gave me a chance to reconnect with the ancestor who led me here to research and write.

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When a Black physician who headed Tuskegee’s training hospital petitioned the federal government to hire Black doctors and nurses for the Negro veterans hospital, the Klan showed up on campus and burned the doctor’s home to ashes.

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At the Vanguard, Black health and HBCU education

The Smithsonian HBCU exhibit has landed in my Ph.D. studies home, Clark Atlanta University. Each curation tells a unique story, including one that complements the narrative in The Price of Exclusion.

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Price of Exclusion won its first book award on Saturday night..Best Non-Fiction at the African American Literary Awards Show. ✨Returning to Harlem and the Schomburg where I’d retraced an ancestor’s steps and deepened my understanding of Black medical education, was surreal. TY to every reader.

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our history deserves to take up space here, and I’m here to exchange ideas with people committed to our care. Thank you to these physicians and anyone who is taking time with this narrative and ancestral work. 📚 www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had the grand opportunity to present as an author/journalist for the American Medical Association & Satcher Health Institute Medical Justice in Advocacy fellows. We used The Price of Exclusion and the history it holds to center a health equity conversation at Morehouse School of Medicine.

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is wonderful!! If you all have time to leave Goodreads, Amazon and/or Audible reviews, please do. It means a lot. Thank you for being in community around this book. ✨

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Capitulating has never, and WILL NEVER, work for anyone under this regime. You’ll only find yourself on the absolute wrong side of history. And we’ll just rinse and repeat until we are no more…

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z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Best 📚 since last 📚 #FridayReads #BookSky #PubLibs

Cover of the book "Boarding schools and the indigenous story" by Ashley Fairbanks

Cover of the book "The price of exclusion" by Nicole Carr

Cover of the book "The wrong way home" by Kate O'Shaughnessy

Cover of the book "The Mortons" by Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thank you! Honored to have the work on your nightstand and alongside these two authors! @brian-goldstone.bsky.social

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If this were the Surgeon General turned social media influencer, we could have this discussion. This ain’t it.

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

To be a student in a HBCU doctoral program philosophy class is TOP TIER. 💯

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Price of Exclusion book tour continued in Charlotte at the Sugar Creek Library branch and Archive CLT. Feeling deep gratitude for every reader. So many classmates that i hadn’t seen in years alongside new faces…📚📚📚

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Willi Morris @williesha.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Education for Black people has always been about life and death." - @nicolefcarr.bsky.social

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Willi Morris @williesha.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hanging out with @nicolefcarr.bsky.social at Howard with @edwriters.bsky.social. NBD.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...

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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]

Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Completely unserious and a result of normalizing white supremacists. Guiliani’s presence offends the ballot box. Election denier who targeted and terrorized Black election workers in a majority Black voting district, please have several seats.

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On Saturday join my WSSU friends and me at Sugar Creek Library. We’ll head to a private event at Archive CLT following the library event. Free RSVP and ticket info here. Sugar Creek Library: cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/6a6b7... Archive CLT reception: events.ticketleap.com/tickets/stic...

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Author Talk & Book Launch: Nicole Carr - The Price of Exclusion

Join author Nicole Carr for the Charlotte launch of The Price of Exclusion: The Pursuit of Healthcare in a Segregated Nation — a searching look at how segregation has shaped access to healthcare in Am...

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thank you to every reader who is keeping The Price of Exclusion in Amazon Books’s top-ranked new releases for History of Medicine, Social Science references, and African American & Black History. This week, I return home to NC for a series of intimate book talks in Charlotte (below).

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Been slacking BlueSky posts, but if you’re in Charlotte, Norfolk or ATL, here’s where I’ll be talking about The Price of Exclusion this month (includes public library, ASALH, private AMA/Morehouse School of Med events). Link to Sept 12 CLT library event: cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/6a6b7...

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 31/08/2026

@nicolefcarr.bsky.social: "I wanted to know the history behind the price we all pay for excluding these doctors, and the proverbial debt America owes for their resilience and fight for basic human rights." www.thexylom.com/post/the-pri...

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The Generational Health Toll of Excluding Black Americans in Healthcare

Roughly 5 percent of doctors in the United States are Black today, compared to the 14 percent of African Americans living in the nation. It’s a ratio that has barely budged in more than a century.

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Thx to everyone who decided to be in community with us as we unpacked how to effectively cover the unraveling of civil rights, DEI in this nation. The feedback has been meaningful. S/O to fellow panelists Aaron Morrison, Kat Stafford & Sabrina Wilson for leading such a powerful convo. #nabj26

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Don’t get mad, get smart…” Ambassador Young offering a charge (and some world history) to Black journalists during our NABJ Board of Directors meeting (that’s my Morehouse journalism student Fredrell Greene at the mic).

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The president's authority as "commander in chief" refers to the military only. The president cannot use executive orders to expand the definition of who is eligible for birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. The president's aide saying these things is a virulent white nationalist.

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Finally found a physical copy of Essence Magazine (Barnes & Noble in Buckhead). Thank you for including The Price of Exclusion on this summer reads list. So many good books have come out this year. Grateful for this moment and the chance to share it with Phill Branch and Amena Brown. ✨

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Joined global scholars to contribute to the latest Routledge Companion Guide to Journalism, exploring some of the most pressing issues before us . As the only HBCU professor to write in this text, I centered the historic Black press,coverage of our communities: www.routledge.com/The-Rout-led...

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The Routledge Companion to Journalism Education

The Routledge Companion to Journalism Education brings together a global and transdisciplinary field of scholars, practitioners, and journalism educators to provide the most contemporary, research-inf...

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Never would have imagined that our PAO chapter’s short doc would reach so many audiences. 💕💚 Through the Years is an official selection for the Bronzelens Film Festival next month. Proud to produce this. Proud of my chapter, its visionaries and our work in civil,human rights:https://bronzelens.com

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This also played out in local and national coverage of the Big Lie. Election deniers’ false claims were often treated as sides that needed to be extracted and platformed. When no evidence of such claim could be seen, their lies were still platformed (sans pushback).

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Thanks to EURweb.com for this coverage of The Price of Exclusion: eurweb.com/nicole-carr-... . I hope readers continue to appreciate the history that’s centered in this book.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Love it when professors stumble into notoriety by doing nothing but their work.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

When some on the right speak of reverence for “civilization,” what they’re doing is trying to anachronistically justify the hierarchy of race they would like to see enacted today by rooting it in antiquity. You cannot cast Black people in The Odyssey, because The Odyssey is a pillar of “Western civilization,” which they consider to be white. This faction of the far right imagines antiquity as a kind of idyllic Jim Crow universe of utterly separate civilizations, one in which the integration they despise could not possibly exist.

But Greece is not as far from Africa as the North American continent is, and the modern construct of race, a pseudoscientific product of the Atlantic slave trade, would not be invented until thousands of years after Homer. Black people are depicted in Greek art. Egypt, Libya, and “Aethiopia” are frequently referenced in ancient writings. As the Black classics scholar Frank Snowden Jr. wrote in the 1970s, at least one of the characters in The Odyssey, Eurybates, is specifically described as “black-skinned and woolly-haired.” As the Stanford classics professor Sarah Derbew notes in her book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, Black people are referenced in plays by Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. They also appear in the writings of Hesiod and Herodotus. One of the lost epic poems is The Aethiopis, in which Memnon, the Aethiopian king and an ally to Troy, plays a major role.

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We live in the dumbest timeline.

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thanks to @nbcwashington.com , 4 Your Reading and , 4 Your Reading and Jummy Olabanji for highlighting my new book, The Price of Exclusion. Howard U’s archives opened the door to much of this story (and I found valuable HU archives in Scotland): www.harpercollins.com/products/the... trib.al/cnr8oY3

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Howard U's archive uncovers ancestor's persevering journey as a Black physician

“The Price of Exclusion” delves into the impact of Black physicians on the healthcare system during segregation, drawing from records from Howard University Medical School found in their archives. New...

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Price of Exclusion at the NAACP National Convention. Thank you to every reader, author and the Da Book Joint for loving on our history, our stories, our books. Honored to be in the number. Til next time…

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Good morning.✨ I’m excited to meet new readers at the NAACP National Convention today. If you drop by The Hub this afternoon, I’ll be there to sign copies of The Price of Exclusion. The bookshop and author signings are powered by Da Book Joint: www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Next stop: The NAACP national convention. Would love to see you in The Hub tomorrow. And if you’ve already read or listened to the book, don’t hesitate to send me a note, or leave a Goodreads/Amazon/Audible review: www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

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The Price of Exclusion

*AN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER* From award-winning journalist Nicole Carr comes a landmark narrative revealing the untold history of ...

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I’ve spoken with more than a dozen audiences about the history and ideas that are rooted in my new debut book, The Price of Exclusion:The Pursuit of Healthcare in a Segregated Nation. Here’s a snippet from June,DC Public Library.You can find the full conversation here: youtu.be/X8K78GuE_nY?...

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Zuri Berry @zuriberry.com · 16/06/2026

Look what came in the mail. Happy to dig into Nicole’s new book.

Book cover for “The Price of Exclusion: The pursuit of healthcare in a segregated nation” by Nicole Carr.

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Thank you for hosting us! Just getting a chance to slow down from the summer tour. I’m so grateful for booksellers like you.

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Christy @swerves.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

An amazing event with Nicole Carr at Quail Ridge books tonight. Moderated by Joel Brown from ABC 11 News and it was probably one of the most important conversations we've had in our store in a long time. We've got copies of Nicole's newest book The Price of Exclusion in our store now.

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