Shaka Senghor
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1,773 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 22 Dec
Shaka Senghor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, that's a great question.
Yeah.
I mean, it's mind blowing just hearing you read back those titles and to think like, you know, there's three major titles in 10 years, which is I'm still taking that in right now.
I know how hard it is to write a book.
It is no joke.
Yeah, I mean I think with the first two, the first one was really about helping people understand who's actually in prison.
You know, I would get people to say, oh my God, you sound like so intelligent.
You don't sound like you've ever been in prison.
And I was just, I knew they meant it as a compliment, but I felt like they don't know these incredible men I left behind.
And so I wanted to tell that story of how, you know, a kid who doesn't fit the narrative that America has had for those who end up in our systems.
How they can come to be in those systems.
And so that's what that was about.
The second book was like, you know, I have all these experiences as a mentor, working with young men across the country, globally.
And I just decided to write these very intimate letters to just a society of young men.
but really recognizing that my sons embodied all of these young men that I've met on my encounter.
And so it was just a book full of fatherly wisdom from a very unique perspective.
This book right here is the culmination of life wisdom as lived experience and really being able to share the things that I've learned throughout the course of my time incarcerated, but also what I've learned post-incarceration.
You know, I can't tell you how many people have come up to me over the years and said, just listening to your story has helped me break free of this anger, of this inability to forgive, of self-doubt.
It's given me confidence.
And these are people who on the outside looking in appear as confident as any human being could be and as accomplished.
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