Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop launched its book club at New Beginnings Youth Development Center in Fall 2018. A residential treatment facility for youths, the development center provides…

This fall, Free Minds members made history! Free Minds was featured in a nationally televised program, PBS’s The Great American Read. 

The author and self-proclaimed spoken word artist Elizabeth Acevedo, who is no stranger to titles (National Poetry Slam Champion and author of New York Times bestselling novel-in-verse The Poet X), made…

We cannot be what we cannot see. – Jason Reynolds, New York Times best-selling author What would be your first purchase if you signed a major book deal at 21…

On July 17, Free Minds staff, Poet Ambassadors, and friends gathered at Pepco Edison Place Gallery to celebrate the new Free Minds Congressman John Lewis Fellowship, a one-year paid position…