Greg Landgraf writes: “NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Antonia Hylton says she became obsessed with the story of Crownsville (Md.) State Hospital when she arrived at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a history student. Her new book, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum, traces Crownsville’s nearly 100-year history, and its parallels to the trauma and stigma surrounding mental health and mental illness in her family and for Black Americans more generally. American Libraries spoke with Hylton about mental health, libraries’ role in caring for community members, and how the story of Henrietta Lacks connects to Crownsville State Hospital.”