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Donovan X Ramsey

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Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

His new book is called "When Crack Was King: A People's History Of A Misunderstood Era." Donovan X. Ramsey is a journalist and author whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, Ebony and Essence. He's been a staff reporter at the Los Angeles Times, NewsOne and TheGrio and has served as an editor at The Marshall Project and Complex.

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