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They called them "crack babies." A generation of Black children labeled before they could even speak. Doctors, politicians, and the media said these kids would grow up broken - violent, unloving, doomed for life. But it wasn’t science. It was stigma. And it was rooted in racism. Decades later, the research is clear: the so-called "crack baby epidemic" was wildly overstated. Yes, prenatal drug exposure can have risks - but the sweeping claims that terrorized Black mothers and justified mass incar