Dolen Perkins-Valdez

WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with D.C. author and American University professor Dolen Perkins-Valdez, who just earned an NAACP Image Literary Award for her harrowing novel “Take My Hand.” It explores the tragic true story of the Relf sisters, who were sterilized by a federally-funded family-planning clinic in Montgomery, Alabama in 1973. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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