Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez Coates delivers a stirring call

Coates delivers a stirring call to self-determination

and use it for good

was so much more than an actor

cultivated revolution

That is what it means to be a troublemaker

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez Coates delivers a stirring callMontgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she hopes to help women shape their destinies, to make their own choices for their lives and bodies. But when her first week on the job takes her along a dusty country road to a worn down one room cabin, Civil is shocked to learn that her new patients, Erica and