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 […]
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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
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Learning about “obnoxious” anarchists at Commie High
This morning, as Arlo and were making our way around Ann Arbor, I cut through an ally next to Community High, where I found three filing cabinets. Not being one who can just walk by a discarded filing cabinet without opening it, I slid the drawers out one by one, looking inside. The first few […]
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