On the last Sunday in May 1995, Ako Abdul-Samad was sitting in an office at the Eldora youth detention center having what others might call a come to Jesus session with a soon-to-be released 16-year-old.
A Black Muslim working for Urban Dreams, Abdul-Samad was showing he had the kid s number. Having blown three previous opportunities for a release, the spirited boy he d just met had been in Eldora 10 months for drug possession. The stately man in the leather suspenders wasn t going to tolerate a fourth derailment. You re intelligent, the told the kid. You know the streets. You ve been manipulating folks a long time.
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The European
Championships couldn’t have gotten off to a much better start for Great
Britain’s swimmers, as they won three medals on the opening night, breaking two
British records in the process.
It was a truly
golden moment in the history of Women’s 4x100m Freestyle swimming in the UK, as
a new-look quartet of Lucy Hope, Anna Hopkin, Abbie Wood and Freya Anderson
were the first British team to ever land the European crown, breaking the
national record in the process.
Having
qualified third quickest, where youngsters Emma Russell and Evelyn Davis
produced strong swims on their senior international debuts, Hopkin and Wood