Actor, Activists, Author, Champion for Prison Reform and Dyslexia
NEW ORLEANS — A local actor who turned his life around after going to prison, says “There can not be prison reform without education reform.” Ameer Baraka says half of the inmates in one Louisiana state prison are dyslexic and can’t read. That’s what happened to him when he was young. Now he’s part of […]
As a young boy, I wasn’t a bad person. I feared going into the classroom because I couldn’t read. Had someone intervened in third or fourth grade, I would never have gone to prison. Today, by the grace of God, I’m proud to be an Emmy-nominated actor and outspoken advocate for dyslexics like me. But as a […]
by Douglas Ankney “When you can’t read, you see no other way out,” said actor Ameer Baraka. “As a kid, I used to ask God to make me a drug dealer, because I knew in order to be someone in life you have to learn to read, and I couldn’t.” In grade school, Baraka had […]
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Inspired by a former prison inmate who went on to become an Emmy-nominated actor, Pittsburg State University’s Center for READing is joining the Dyslexia Awareness Foundation to implement the most ambitious dyslexia screening and remedial reading intervention initiative to date. The initiative will begin this spring in schools, jails, prisons, and community centers throughout the […]
A study found that 80 percent of inmates in the Huntsville, Texas, state prison were functionally illiterate, and 48 percent of those were dyslexic. READ MORE HERE