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by Sherrilyn A. Ifill onOctober 6, 2009
The new Supreme Court, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor, will decide just how soon we give up on kids—usually black kids.
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August 17, 2009
R. Dwayne Betts spent nine years in prison. His new memoir chronicles his coming of age and path toward published writer.
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August 14, 2009
Sentenced to nine years in prison at the age of sixteen for carjacking, R. Dwayne Betts discovered something unexpected while relegated to solitary confinement for assaulting a guard: a love of literature.
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