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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

By Mark | March 31, 2016

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, authors, 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, The Daily Show, Writing My Wrongs: Life Death and Redemption in an American Prison | 19 Comments

Citizens for Prison Reform’s Lois DeMott, a recent Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation grant recipient, featured on NBC’s Rock Center

By Mark | March 24, 2013

The Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation recently awarded a $1,000 grant to Lois DeMott, the founder of Citizens for Prison Reform. I’d interviewed Lois at the time of the award, but I’d decided to hold off posting it for a bit, as she had mentioned to me that she was going to be interviewed by Ted […]