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...

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?...

Wrapping another The Price of Exclusion book tour stop and spending pool time with Dorothy A. Brown’s Getting to Reparations…

If you’re in Chicago for this year’s NAACP national convention, meet me in #TheHub to discuss how the org and the LDF appear in The Price of Exclusion’s narrative re: hospital desegregation cases. I’ll be signing books next Monday, July 20th. Looking forward to this.

I’ve recently been with readers in Oakland, Jamaica and Gwinnett Co.,GA. During each stop I’ve met Black physicians and other healthcare professionals who describe The Price of Exclusion + its history as additive to their equity work. More than I could hope for… www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

NYC-Pull up to tonight’s book talk if you can. I’ll have a wide-ranging conversation with Abby Phillip. Here are the details forThe Price of Exclusion NYC: stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

If you’re reading The Price of Exclusion, you know about the ancestral journey I’ve taken with my father. I’ve practiced my reporting with him since I was a little girl. He’ll be my conversation partner this week in TX. Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you deep. open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

A Juneteenth edition of Fortify: In the Price of Exclusion, I explore race, war service and the plight of a Civil War-era physician who broke barriers in America and Canada. Here’s just a bit on Dr. Alexander T. Augusta as we ponder freedom and health: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

Last night I sat in community w readers in Raleigh, NC-home the nation’s first four year medical school. That education -the education of the Negro doctor-set the standard. A HBCU set the standard. Shaw U. set the standard. Thank you for grounding conversation in race/ed w The Price of Exclusion.

A reviewer set my book next to a pic of the Black Tulane med students who stood firmly in front of cabins where the formerly enslaved slept. Fists raised, white coats on..new energy to Whitney Plantation. Headed to shoot a story at the HBCU that was home to America’s 1st 4 year med school.This life…

It’s PUB Day +Election Day (GA)!! The Price of Exclusion is now available in bookstores nationwide. Nearly 100 family, friends, physicians, educators and readers joined me for an early celebration in Atlanta. TY for engaging in this history. We cannot be erased: www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Thank you to The Root for incl. The Price of Exclusion in today’s “The Black Reading List You Need Summer.” Honored to join so many talented authors incl. Mara Brock Akil ,Tia Williams ,Colson Whitehead , Opal Lee and many more. Check out the list, order these books! www.theroot.com/the-black-re...

Unboxing final books as the DOJ investigates medical schools: The history in The Price of Exclusion is on time. open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

S/O to my Uber driver, Jay. By the end of our 45 min commute, he’d pre-ordered the audiobook and three hard copies of The Price of Exclusion. Thankful. ✨Here’s a link to pre-orders: www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

What a weekend. Thank you to the Bay Area Book Festival for allowing The Price of Exclusion to help center a conversation around anti-Blackness & racism in the U.S. healthcare system. Drs. Jennifer James, Khiara M. Bridges and Vanessa Grubbs-TY for your brilliance and books. Two weeks until Pub Day!

From Atlanta to Kingston, Jamaica, I’m excited to be in community with you for The Price of Exclusion 2026 Summer Book Tour. Please check out the tickets/RSVP links, venues, dates and fantastic conversation partners here: www.nicolefcarr.com/book-tour

Last year I wrote about the formerly enslaved who held the first Decoration Day rituals.This is how Black people enterprised Memorial Day (and why journalism history and Black studies are key to our understanding of the holiday’s origin story) Fortify/ May 26, 2025: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

“Inspiring and sobering, Carr’s book is a necessary reminder of the reforms still needed to ensure diversity and equality in the public health system.” -Kirkus Reviews (today) on The Price of Exclusion (June 16, 2026): www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

The short doc I directed for my AKA chapter is headed to the Charlotte Black Film Festival. This story highlights the lives of our charter members + their work in the Civil Rights Movement. Framing fit for the moment: charlotteblackfilmfestival.ticketspice.com/16th-annual-...

1961. Atlanta Magazine launches. Atlanta Public Schools integrates its classrooms. President Kennedy has a word on the Black press + a full page address in one of the mag’s inaugural year issues. Here’s what I wrote for Atlanta Mag’s 65th anniversary edition: www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture...

As voting rights were decimated by the SCOTUS yesterday, our Morehouse journalism students happened to be presenting multimedia projects around democracy and voting access (data visualizations and short docs). These are themes we teach around 365.This was right on time. We need their sensibilities…

If you’re in L.A., I’d love to be in community w you at Reparations Club on June 26. Join my WSSU classmate/fellow journalist Tim Pulliam as we build conversation around my debut book, The Price of Exclusion. Tickets are available here (full tour will drop soon!): www.eventbrite.com/e/book-event...

We’re talking anti-Blackness + structural racism in healthcare at this year’s Bay Area Book Fest. The panelists are brilliant researchers, providers. Honored to join them+explore the themes in each of our books.Takes place just ahead of The Price of Exclusion’s pub day.Full schedule: baybookfest.org

Spent the weekend reeling over war, preserving Black history on the final leg of our four-city film festival tour with our children in tow, and committing to our ancestors’ exercise of call and response at the ASALH Black History centennial celebration in Washington. What a time to be alive.

Spent the last few days in community with Black memory workers contributing their genius via multiple disciplines-librarianship,archiving, oral histories, storytelling, museum curation and much more.The historic convening of the Black Information Futures Symposium in Seattle. #blkinfofutures2026

Our short doc, Through the Years, screened in D.C.’s Lincoln Theatre last night. It joined thirteen other films that document the Diaspora’s rich history. Thank you to film lovers who showed up, and the sisters who always show out. Hope I did you one good. 💕💚 Next Stops:Oakland, Miami and Atlanta. ✊🏾

“I’d encourage anyone who thinks that being silent, and they think that neutrality on human rights issues is going to save them, to think again.”- Some of my thoughts earlier this week…Via the National Association of Black Journalists/ Black Star Network “Not on Our Watch” town hall.

I kicked off BHM by centering the assault against Black journalists.Thanks to CNN,Victor Blackwell for the opportunity to join Sunday’s CNN This Morning panel. You can read more, watch the entire segment and get info on tonight’s @nabj townhall in today’s Fortify: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

Last year I began to raise alarms about to potential for the federal government to start arresting journalists for doing our jobs,knowing that the historic Black press had faced this.Today, Don Lemon is in fed custody after a bogus arrest for bearing witness.Resharing from March 2025: bit.ly/45F4LH2

This is not a new post. I wrote this newsletter almost a year ago. It’s about why it’s often so difficult for media to cover white supremacy. It’s leads with a a story about a fired (now REHIRED) ICE agent. Worth resharing today…: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...