num_pages: 314
description: In 1991 at the age of nineteen Shaka Senghor shot and killed a man. He was a young drug dealer with a quick temper who had been hardened by what he experienced selling drugs on the unforgiving streets of Detroit. For years as he served out his sentence for second degree murder he blamed everybody else but himself for the decision he made to shoot on that fateful night. It wasn't until Shaka started writing about the pain from his childhood and his life on the streets that he was able to get at the root of the anger that led him to prison. Through the power of journaling he accepted responsibility for his violent behavior and now uses his experience to help others avoid the same path.
language: English
title: Writing My Wrongs
publisher: Drop a Gem Publishing