It was there, in my prison cell, reading his words, that I came to understand one of the most horrifying yet fundamental truths of America: however mistreated or underprivileged, whatever injustice I encountered, it was nothing against the backdrop of the Black American experience.
There are felons among us.
Some people find it disconcerting the way I speak openly, frankly, about my
felon status or my experiences in prison, but this is deliberate on my part. I
It's December 1st. Almost every person I spoke with today mentioned this
phenomenon with some sense of foreboding awe - the first day of the last month
of the year. There
There are few achievements I am proud of in my life but today, on the 50th
anniversary of the Voting Rights Act
[https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/civil-rights/voting-rights-act],
I'm not
