Interview with Formerly Incarcerated Men about Dr. Shakur’s Impact

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Notes

1 Akbar Pray is a former “kingpin” from New Jersey who became a renowned author during his incarceration. Pray was sentenced to Life plus 50 years in 1990.

2 The Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) Coleman contains five penitentiaries, one women’s prison and two maximum and one medium and a low security facility for men. The security level of Atlanta the federal prison in Atlanta was changed from maximum to medium in 2005. The inmates in the maximum security USP Atlanta were transferred to one of FCC Coleman’s maximum security men’s prison.

3 Federal prisoners.

4 The United State Penitentiary Florence ADMAX (Administrative Maximum) in Colorado is also known as ADX. ADX is considered the highest security prison in the U.S.

5 Tupac Shakur performed at U.S.P. Lompoc in California in 1993 when Mutulu Shakur was incarcerated there.

6 Coleman II is one of the men’s maximum security prisons in FCC Coleman.

7 UNICOR is a federal government corporation that supervises work details using prisoners labor to produce products sold outside the penitentiary or distributed throughout the federal Bureau Of Prisons

8 Strap (a.k.a .John Harris) was one of the prisoners who was part the Circle of Consciousness.

9 Popular Hip Hop artist and member of the rap group The Diplomats. Santana served 19 months in prison on a weapons charge,

10 Kodak Black is a rap artist.

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Notes on contributors

J. Jondhi Harrell

J. Jondhi Harrell, aka Kwame Tata Nganga Mbangala, is a Writer, Artist, Afrikan Elder, Community organizer, Food Activist and Returning Citizen Program manager- Fresh Start NJ Reentry and TCRC Community Healing Center in Philadelphia.

Cedric Lines

Cedric Lines, also known as Lucky, is an author, screen-writer, and impact speaker.

Leo Sullivan

Leo Sullivan is an author, filmmaker, and owner of Leo Sullivan Presents, today’s top-selling urban publishing house. His debut novel, Life, is considered an urban street classic. Sullivan has been featured in such popular publications as Essence, King, Don Diva, and XXL.

Mshairi Siyanda

Mshairi Siyanda (Interviewer) is an educator at Kilombo Academic and Cultural Institute and an organizer for the Abolitionist Teaching Network. She was educated at Georgia State University where she majored in African American Studies and found her passion to work with and for her community. Mshairi has had an extensive career as an Early Childhood educator in cities like New Orleans, New York and Atlanta. She is committed to serving the Black community in order to contribute to the liberation of Afrikan people.