BOOK EVENT: The Price of Exclusion w/ Nicole Carr & Tim Pulliam

WHO & WHAT: Join Rep Club and author Nicole Carr & moderator Tim Pulliam for the LA launch of

The Price of Exclusion is both a necessary history and a testament to the resilience of Black medical pioneers past and present.

WHEN: Doors at 6:30 PM, event promptly at 7 PM.

WHERE: Reparations Club, 3054 S. Victoria Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90016

HOW:

TICKET w/ BOOK: This ticket guarantees a seat including a signed book available for pick up at the event.

FREE RSVP (No Book Included): This Free RSVP DOES NOT include a copy of the book and entry is based strictly on capacity at the door. Books may be available for purchase in-store.

SIGNED BOOK ONLY: Can't make it IRL but still want a signed copy? Order directly from our site!

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About the Book:

FROM 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.

NICOLE 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.

TIM PULLIAM Tim Pulliam is an Emmy-nominated, multiple award-winning TV journalist. He celebrates more than 15 years in television, covering breaking news, politics, race, culture, tropical storms and crime. In 2021, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his reporting at WTVD on a story garnering national attention: The Shooting Death of Andrew Brown, Jr. Tim is the recipient of three Salute to Excellence in Journalism trophies, presented by the National Association of Black Journalists (2020, 2016, 2011). In 2017, Tim Pulliam was named 'Reporter of The Year' by the Associated Press and the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas (RTDNAC).

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