Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, And Redemption In an American Prison

FEATURING SHAKA SENGHOR – Twenty five years ago a man named Shaka Senghor was convicted of second degree murder and sent to prison. Senghor, a native of Detroit, Michigan, had a promising future, starting out as an honor roll student and hoped to become a doctor.

But circumstances that included the violence of his neighborhood, as well as a difficult family life and child abuse pushed Senghor to deal drugs. When a deal went horribly wrong and resulted in Senghor fatally shooting another man, his life’s trajectory seemed to be forever shifted as he became yet another statistic in our prison industrial complex.

But in prison he reflected on his life, and, after having served his time, Shaka Senghor today has become a celebrated writer, speaker and best-selling author. In a book released earlier this year, he shared the story of what happened to him.

Find out more about the initiatives to reduce prison population at: www.beyondprisons.org, www.cut50.org, and how to get Shaka’s book at: www.writingmywrongsbook.com, www.shakasenghor.com.

Shaka Senghor, writer, mentor, motivational speaker, author of six books, and a former Director’s Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, and a Community Leadership Fellow with the Kellogg Foundation. Currently he is the Director of Strategy and Innovation with #cut50, an initiative to reduce the prison population. He is the author of the critically acclaimed best-selling book, Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, And Redemption In an American Prison.