Is That the Narrative of Jay Z's Album?

A 1985 article in the New England Journal of Medicine claimed that children of mothers who used crack were smaller, sicker and less social than other infants. Dr. Ira Chasnoff's provisional research was swallowed whole by a racialized form of media regurgitated on nightly news accounts. By the way, people are losing their minds when they're exposed to this kind of information from mainstream media like The New York Times or CNN," he says.