After serving 19 years for murder, Senghor emerged ready to speak up against the unforgiving prison system that sealed his fate long before he pulled the trigger All of these facts are true. Shaka ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Shaka Senghor (Photo courtesy of shakasenghor.com) The bestselling author joins TheGrio Weekly to discuss healing, ...

Last week I hung out with a great dude from Detroit named Shaka Senghor. He’s just a few years older than I am. He’s brilliant writer, a doting father, and a fierce advocate for radical reforms in ...

Shaka Senghor is grateful he's not the man he once was. He is a college lecturer and MIT consultant. He also has a popular TED talk and mentors young kids. But his success came after a deadly mistake, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Released' chronicles the lives of former inmates as they acclimate back into society. Despite being out of prison for seven years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shaka Senghor was convicted of murder as a teenager in the '90s. He spent nearly 20 years in prison. Since his release, Senghor ...

On a hot summer night in 1991, in a drug buy gone bad, Shaka Senghor shot a man to death. He went on to spend 19 years in Michigan prisons — seven of them in solitary confinement, where he grew ...

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*Author and Activist Shaka Senghor is one of the leading voices in the fight for criminal justice reform. After serving 19 years in prison for killing a man, he emerged with a refined outlook on life ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shaka Senghor became a father in prison; he became a man on his terms. After he was arrested for second-degree murder in 1991, ...

Author and motivational speaker Shaka Senghor recently joined TheGrio Weekly to talk about his new book, How to Be Free: A Proven Guide to Escaping Life’s Hidden Prisons and he revealed the keys to ...

And that’s not even half of his redemption tale. Speaking with VIBE at his Los Angeles home, Senghor discusses the difficulty of raising a child in prison, how Hip-Hop shaped his maturation while ...