In Episode 19 of the podcast, I spoke with Wali White and four of his high school students who participate in the Native Sons Book Club. The members of the club read books such as A Lesson Before Dying, Parable of the Sower and the Autobiography of Malcolm X, and then discuss them with writer and musician Keith LaMar, who is currently on death row in an Ohio state penitentiary. For this episode, I speak with Mr. LaMar himself. Our discussion starts with his thoughts about the Native Sons Book Club, and then expands into an analysis of the roles education plays in different societies, both inside and outside of prisons. One key focus is the importance of reading widely in coming to critical consciousness and finding authors that teach us lessons about writing. Mr. LaMar is the author of Condemned, which provides his account of how he came to be sentenced to die for a crime that he didn’t commit.
For More Information: https://www.keithlamar.org/condemned
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