Do More 24 on Thursday, June 4
Make your gift count. Support Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop on Thursday for Do More 24, a special day of giving. This year, we…
Read More →BleakHouse Awards Ceremony: A chance to hear a different point of view
By Jess Lawson, Free Minds intern On Thursday, March 26, students, poets, professors, and social justice advocates alike gathered for a night of celebration and…
Read More →February Apprenticeship Program Graduates Six Free Minds Members
By Jess Lawson, Free Minds intern Congratulations to Anthony, David M., David T., Josh, Ricardo, and Tavon, who recently graduated from the Free Minds Job…
Read More →You’re Invited: Poetry Reading and Discussion
Join us on Monday, April 20, from 7-8:30 pm at the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital for an evening of poetry and community…
Read More →Teaching Others to Tell Their Own Stories
You’re Invited! Join us on Monday, March 30, for a workshop on teaching therapeutic writing for youth, led by Richard Gold of the award-winning Pongo…
Read More →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…
Read More →Free 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…
Read More →Author 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…
Read More →Author 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…
Read More →The 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…
Read More →My Introduction to Free Minds
By JoAnne Allen A book is a small thing to share with somebody. Yet a book can lead to big changes in the life of…
Read More →Poet Ambassadors Bringing Confidence, Inspiration
By Free Minds Intern Maddie Mitchell As an intern who has heard extensive positive feedback about Free Minds’ various initiatives but has never actually seen…
Read More →Free Minds Poets in Tacenda Literary Magazine
On Thursday, March 27th, several Free Minds members were recognized at the annual BleakHouse Publishing Awards Ceremony. BleakHouse Publishing is an independent, non-profit press dedicated…
Read More →Looking Through a Window from Prison
Free Minds had the privilege of participating in a collaborative photography project called Windows from Prison, directed by photographer Mark Strandquist. In April, several of…
Read More →“A Wonderfully Moving Experience”
In April, the Free Minds Outreach Team took the On the Same Page program to the University of DC David A. Clarke School of Law.
Read More →Celebrating our Free Minds Apprentices
Two Free Minds Reentry Support members (former Book Club members who are now home from prison), Anthony and Delonte, have just completed the Free Minds…
Read More →“Show Me a Better Way”
On March 31, Free Minds and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation hosted the second annual poetry reading and community dialogue at the Hill Center at the Old…
Read More →Hill Harper Visits Book Club
In November, author, activist, and actor (CSI and Covert Affairs) Hill Harper visited the juvenile unit at the DC Jail to talk with Book Club…
Read More →“On the Same Page Reaches Many Audiences”
Free Minds’ “On the Same Page” outreach program visited both Cesar Chavez Public Policy High School and Center City Public Charter School in Spring 2013.…
Read More →Free Minds Branches Out!
In April, Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop assumed programming duties for The Beat Within writing workshop at New Beginnings Youth Development Center, DC’s…
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