BAM Hosts 38th Annual MLK Day Event
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s annual tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts “expressed how mercy is the wish of many Black and Brown people who are incarcerated.”
BAM hosts 38th Annual Brooklyn tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts delivered the keynote address at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
'Look at where we are now': BAM honors Martin Luther King Jr. at annual tribute event
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts delivered the keynote address at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
How to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Brooklyn
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts is slated to give the keynote address at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s annual tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
Freedom Reads puts on a play at CTF
Freedom Reads presented a one-person adapted performance of The Latehomecomer, a novel by Kao Kalia Yang, at Correctional Training Facility.
The Lives They Lived: Harry Belafonte
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts penned this in memoriam piece on Harry Belafonte, reflecting how he used his power of celebrity to create change for Black Americans.
'Freedom begins with a book': incarcerated people to judge new US literary award
Freedom Reads, the National Book Foundation, and the Center for Justice Innovation launch the Inside Literary Prize; one judge and two authors shortlisted for the prize discuss the initiative’s impact.
300 Incarcerated People to Judge New US Literary Award
Freedom Reads, the National Book Foundation, and the Center for Justice Innovation launch the Inside Literary Prize, the nation's first literary award judged by currently incarcerated readers.
The 10 Best Literary Rediscoveries of 2023
Redaction by artist Titus Kaphar and Freedom Reads Founder & CEO and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts makes this best literary rediscoveries list.
A Dallas bookstore owner wanted to engage inmates in reading. A national book prize was the result
Lori Feathers, co-owner of Interabang Books, discusses the inspiration for the Inside Literary Prize launched by Freedom Reads, the National Book Foundation, and the Center for Justice Innovation.
A New Literary Prize Taps a Jury Living Behind Bars
Freedom Reads, the National Book Foundation, and the Center for Justice Innovation launch the Inside Literary Prize, the nation's first literary award judged by currently incarcerated readers and bequeathed onto the "dopest book of the year."
New Book Award To Be Judged By Prison Inmates
Freedom Reads, the National Book Foundation, and the Center for Justice Innovation, with support from Lori Feathers, launched the Inside Literary Prize, the first US-based book award to be judged exclusively by currently incarcerated people.