hatting with Ameer Baraka About Dyslexia

The T Lounge With Miss J interviews Actor Ameer Baraka

Aunt uses program to fight for young man’s future

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 […]

Black Boys With Dyslexia Need Love and Learning, Not Shame and Prison

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 […]

Correlation Between Dyslexia and Criminal Behavior; First Step Act to Require Screening, Treatment

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 […]

Ameer Baraka Talks Bronx SIU, Acting and Much More! (EXCLUSIVE)

Ameer Baraka Actor, Author, Activist, Educator. Mr. Baraka is a man on a mission. We are hesitant to waste time with preambles because we want you to read each and every single word. But for procedural sake let us at least mention Ameer has starred inAmerican Horror Story and HBO’s Treme as well as featured in Oprah Winfrey’s Black […]