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latest news about publishing industry with interesting insight. our interviews with publishing industry experts will also give you updates on current nonfiction authors books. the latest book reviews. and we'll talk about the current nonfiction books featured on c-span spook tv. freedom reads is a group looking to bring books to prisons. they're known as freedom libraries and. we're joined now by the founder and director of reads, reginald dwayne betts. well, reginald betts, what is freedom reads? and that's interesting i think freedom reads in some ways my life story, but it's in so...

Prison, particularly for Black Americans, gets reduced to simple caricatures of violence and suffering. Inside the confines of a jail cell, through a book, I discovered salvation.

Freedom Reads, Betts’ non profit group, will officially donate 2,500 books in five custom-made lending libraries to the Robert N. Davoren Center, the jail for young men on Rikers Island, a place often buffeted by violence, poor conditions and crumbling architecture.

The poet and social justice activist speaks about Freedom Reads and new work

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