Eldridge Cleaver did it.
Yusef Shakur did it.
His daddy, Ahjamu Baruti, did it too.
Tookie William’s did it with Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir, and Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Live From Death Row put us right at the frontlines of penal life. So it is no wonder to get another former ghetto misfit, funky roustabout, fractured miscreant, bad-boy ex-felon to change his ways, grab a pen, get pad and join the latest literary trend of what I call “post-penal literature”….continue
