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Question: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Shaka Senghor is Positive . Shaka Senghor  attends the Tribeca TV Festival series premiere of "Released" at Cinepolis Chelsea in September. (Photo: Nicholas Hunt  Getty Images for Tribeca TV Festival)
 New York Times bestselling author Shaka Senghor  remembers  his  first night in prison.
It was fall. And it was cold. The windows were busted. Two scruffy wool blankets covered a three-inch plastic mattress.  He  had to use both blankets â one to cover  his  feet  the other for  his  upper torso. But it was  so cold Senghor  eventually got up and put one of the blankets in the broken window. As  he  looked out   he  saw a couple of young men  his  age playing around a garbage can.  He  envied their freedom.
âIt just was ... dark and lonely sitting in that cell and realizing that this was the next however many years of my life  if not the rest of my life â says  Senghor   author of Writing My Wrongs: Life  Death and Redemption in an American Prison.
 Senghor   who was sentenced to 17 to 40 years for second-degree murder  served 19 years in prison  spending seven years in solitary confinement. He was released from prison on June 22  2010. He walked in at the age of 19  and didn't walk out until he was 38.
 Senghor  is now 45  and the past seven years have been a mixed bag. It was hard to find a job. For a couple of years   he  said   his  job applications were dismissed almost immediately because of  his  felony conviction.
As difficult as starting over was for  Senghor    he  had it better than others.  He  lived in Michigan  a state with one of the lowest employment restrictions for former felons in the country â 94. The state with the highest number  Louisiana  has 389 employment restrictions. Nationwide 6 392 of the 48 000 restrictions on former felons are on employment.
Beyond employment challenges  strict rules regarding parole and probation make successful re-entry challenging for men  says  Senghor . Any encounter with police   he  notes  can get an inmate sent back to prison. As an African American man returning to a low-income neighborhood  itâs difficult to avoid law enforcement   Senghor  points out. Something as small as jaywalking can get black men detained in communities where stop-and-frisk measures are disproportionately employed.
And  Senghor  remembers growing up in such a community in Detroit. At 17  he  was shot while standing on a street corner. And  he  developed a paranoia that turned into hyper-violence   he  explained during a TED talk.
That defensive posture â is what caused  him  to pick up a gun  and what eventually led to  his  arrest and incarceration.
It took a long time for  Senghor  to drop that way of thinking. And some men never do as they rack up more serious criminal infractions and technical violations while they are on parole.
âWe should be figuring out waysâ¦to do away with a lot of these technical parole violations which aren't crimes  " Senghor  says  "but you're punishing the person as if they've committed a new crime and you're creating the stigma that anybody who's going back just can't get it together when in reality a technical violation really isn't something worthy of a person being incarcerated for.â
 Senghor  is working on that issue as the director of strategy and innovation for #cut50  an organization co-founded by Van Jones that works on criminal justice reform policies including re-entry initiatives and reducing the restrictive nature of probation and parole.  He  is also an executive producer of the show âReleased â on the OWN network. It shows the challenges of people recently released from prison.
 Senghor  describes Americaâs justice system as âdysfunctional  broken  outdated  and not designed to foster rehabilitation efforts or to keep communities safe.â  He  says systemic racism  a failed mental health system  poverty  drug addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder contributes to mass incarceration more than anything else.
âWe have a system that fails "  Senghor  says. "And we still dump money into the system to further support the things that are proven not to work.â

Answer: yes


Question: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Carmelo Anthony is Positive . A complicated era is over.  Carmelo Anthony  finally escaped New York.
After months of posturing and misdirection regarding  his  future   the Knicks  agreed to ship the greatest Knick since Patrick Ewing to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Doug McDermott  Enes Kanter and a 2018 second-round pick  a source confirmed Saturday.
Two role players is a small haul for a player of Anthonyâs stature and scoring prowess  but  the Knicks  were never getting a comparable return. Both sides just needed to move on after a long and contentious divorce period.
 Carmelo Anthony  is getting  his  wish and will be leaving  the Knicks  just days before start of training camp.
During and after Phil Jacksonâs tenure   the Knicks  made it known that  Anthony  was no longer part of  their  plans. But  they  couldnât agree to a deal to satisfy Anthonyâs desire of playing for the Rockets  setting in motion fears that the small forward would make it to another  Knicks  training camp.
 Knicks  reach out to Cavs about a potential  Carmelo Anthony  trade
 He  didnât want that.
Less than two weeks ago  according to a source   Anthony  opened up  his  options to three destinations â including the Rockets â to pressure  the Knicks  to get a deal done before having to attend Media Day in New York on Monday. As the Daily News first reported   the Knicks  reached out to the Cavs recently with the understanding that  Anthony  would waive  his  no-trade clause to join buddy LeBron James. However  the Cavs were unwilling to part with Tristan Thompson or Kevin Love.
The Thunder were also on  Anthony âs list  and there is an important connection: Assistant GM Troy Weaver formerly coached  Anthony  at Syracuse  and the two remain close. Beyond that  the Thunder will boast a trio (Anthony  Russell Westbrook  Paul George) as lethal offensively as any in the NBA. To complete the deal   Anthony  not only had to waive  his  no-trade clause   he  sacrificed a trade kicker worth $8.1 million.  He  leaves the biggest NBA market for one of the smallest  an ironic move considering  he  pushed so hard to travel the opposite way six years ago for  his  trade to the Knicks. New York is the city that never sleeps and Oklahoma Cityâs stores all close by 6 p.m. But digital media has changed the landscape such that stars can get exposure and endorsements in any market. The Thunder have 27 games on national television this season  compared to New Yorkâs eight.
 Carmelo Anthony  will be sporting a new look this season. (Jennifer Pottheiser/NBAE/Getty Images)
The Knicks are projected to land in the lottery again  while challenged to replace Anthonyâs 22-plus points per game. Theyâll be really bad  but itâs easy to find the long-term reasons for dealing  Anthony : it creates a faster transition into the Kristaps Porzingis era; it eliminates potential distractions and another controversy; it jibes with New Yorkâs tanking strategy in the final year of the current draft lottery system.
 Carmelo Anthony  spends seven seasons with the Knicks but fails to deliver a true contender. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
 Anthony  wouldâve been traded long ago if  he  wasnât one of only three NBA players with a no-trade clause. It was given to  Anthony  by Jackson â along with a $124 million contract â in 2014. Before that   he  led the Knicks to a division title  a playoff series victory and set the franchise record for most points in a game (62).
But everything went downhill after Jackson took over as president  culminating Saturday with  Anthony  leaving the Knicks â a marriage once meant to save the franchise.
Knicks   Carmelo Anthony  headed toward awkward reunion next week

Answer: yes


Question: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Bill Maher Bill is Positive . Well  comedian  Bill Maher  must not have gotten the memo. Or maybe  he  did get it and didnât care.
Speaking to Warren face to face on his HBO program âReal Timeâ that night   Maher  asked  her  why more working-class people still back Trump despite  his  tax plan that  Maher  said favored the wealthy.
âTheyâre still with  him . Theyâre not with you â  Maher  told Warren. âExplain to  me  what that disconnection is.â
 Maher  cut off Warrenâs defense: âWell   his  fans are not with you.â
âHold on â  she  insisted. But  Maher  nudged more: âCome on.â
 Maher  then moved in for the kill: âThey donât like you  Pocahontas.â
 Maher  smiled at Warren and laughed as well  presumably signaling to  her  that  his  jab wasnât an attack.
But Warren â hardly ever at a loss for words â fell silent and needed a few moments as the âPocahontasâ ribbing sank in. Check out  her  face just after:
It seemed as though Warren got the joke soon enough.  She  looked as though  she  was about to smile â
but  she  did not reply to Maherâs joke and instead soldiered on with  her  rhetoric:
âHow can it be racist if  she âs not Native American?â one Twitter user asked.
âDisagree completely. Warren is embellishing (or lying  your pick) Trump is calling  her  on  her  BS #PoliticalCorrectnessSucks â another user said.
CNNâs Jake Tapper offered a quote from a Native American friend of his who said Trump uttering âPocahontasâ is a racial slur â but Tapper added in his follow-up tweet that this same Native American friend noted that the Cherokee Nation âdid a formal review and  she  is not a Cherokee citizen.â
Native American friend of mine on Trump calling  her  "Pocahontas": "It is a slur for sure and broadly stereotyping Indigenous people." 1/2 â Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 28  2017
Also  he says  "a citizen of the Cherokee Nation  I know they did a formal review and  she  is not a Cherokee citizen." 2/2 â Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 28  2017

Answer:
no