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Free Minds on the Front Page!
Check out the article from the front page of The Washington Post “How a book club is helping to keep ex-offenders from going back to jail” by Robert Samuels, featuring Free Minds…
Read MoreFree Minds and Free Hearts at the Department of Education
By Jess Lawson, Free Minds Intern “It means that somebody cares, even if they don’t know you,” said Gary, a Free Minds member and Poet Ambassador who is starting his…
Read MoreAuthor Shaka Senghor Talks Writing, Transformation
“It’s hard to look at y’all in those orange jumpsuits,” the imposing muscle-bound man told young members of Free Minds as they filed into the jail’s chapel on Friday, December…
Read MoreAuthor George Pelecanos Visits the Free Minds Book Club
Even famous authors have to deal with rejection. That’s what veteran DC crime novelist, George Pelecanos told Free Minds Book Club members who gathered in the chapel of the Correctional…
Read MoreThe Power of Public Speaking
By Sherman Justice “Free Minds has taught me that being the griot of your own personal story is one of the greatest attributes that you can offer the world. And…
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