For those of you who didn’t catch episode 43 of The Saturday Six Pack when it was first broadcast a few weeks ago, it’s now available online. If you scroll to the bottom of this post, you’ll find it embedded. If you’d rather not hear my voice, though, here are my abbreviated notes. Our first […]
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Bestselling author Shaka Senghor takes us inside the “big warehouse of human misery” that is the American prison system, filmmaker Donald Harrison tells us about his new Commie High documentary, and we talk judicial reform with civil rights attorney Dick Soble… on episode 43 of the Saturday Six Pack
Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Detroit, Michigan, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged #cut50, accountability partners, Calvin Evans, civil rights, Cut 50, Detroit, Dick Soble, Donald Goines, East Detroit, fiction, Malcolm X, mysteries, Oprah, overincarceration, pacts, prison, prison reform, Red Squad, Shaka Senghor, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the cost of incarceration, the hiring on ex-fellons, Urban Ashes 10 Comments
Bestselling author Shaka Senghor on redemption and atonement, the making of the Commie High documentary, and civil rights attorney Dick Soble… on this weekend’s edition of the Saturday Six Pack
On this Saturday’s show, we’ll be joined by Shaka Senghor, the author of the New York Times bestseller Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison. A recent Detroit-based fellow at MIT’s Media Lab, Senghor was released from prison in 2010, after serving 19 years for second-degree murder, a crime which he […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged arbitration, atonement, Calvin Evans, Commie High, Community High, Dick Soble, dispute resolution, Donald Harrison, drug dealing, drugs, ex-prisoners, gun violence, MIT, MIT Media Lab, murder, Oprah, prison, prison industrial complex, prison reform, redemption, Shaka Senghor, solitary confinement, The Daily Show, Writing My Wrongs: Life Death and Redemption in an American Prison 19 Comments