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class of 2012, good afternoon. i see a whole sea of graduates from the point where i stand. this is quite a day. a day to celebrate your successes as you commence the next stage of your life. the relative importance of my role really hit home with me when i had trouble -- smsh between mad men and star wars and i mean the originals. someone once told me, and it's good to know, that when you give a speech, if you can get your audience to remember one thing, you've done well. and if you can get them to remember two things, you've hit it out of the park. so i'm going to try my luck today...

summer 200077 how long had you been out of prison at that point*? >> guest: released march 4, 2005 i had been out two years. the book about because i was featured on the front page on and "the washington post" for a book clubs said that was a result of my a consequence is it is about prison but is also my love of literature and how that change me into a different person. >> host: a question of freedom. r. dwayne betts. . . in criticism and it's another we into tonight's program i want to read the ending to his beautiful s.a., the book as a container of consciousness. and when we read...

faq so much from the bottom of my heart. today is day nine of the book tour. we have been to new york and toronto and the d.c. tomorrow we have portland, seattle, olympia, boston and denver. and we're continually adding new places. so if you have friends in other places, to some of the look on our website. find that some of the other places that we are going tour. . . >> thank you so much. [applause] this tour has been great largely because every rego we have a huge gathering this is a great example especially of the power to get people together and communities that care about these ...

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from los angeles. i'm tavis smiley. tonight a remarkable story of redemption. r. dwayne betts was just 16 when he was sentenced to nine years in prison after committing a carjacking and robbery. he was released after prison and is sharing his story in the critically acclaimed book called "a question of freedom." we're glad you could join us. a conversation with r. dwayne betts coming up right now. >> there are so many things that wal-mart is looking forward to doing, like helping people live better but mostly we're looking forward to building stronger communities and relationships be...