Share Your Story
	Christopher Burton is a sophomore and second year SAC (Student-at-the-Center) student at Frederick Douglass Senior High School. Chris is a contributing writing to the North Star Crusader, Douglass' school newspaper and a reciprocal teaching tutor of fourth and fifth graders at Charles Drew Elementary School. This Spring, Chris spoke during the Breadloaf Teaching Network Conference in South Carolina at the Penn Center on the upcoming Civil Rights Memorial Project honoring Homer Plessey. In addition to writing and tutoring, Chris spends his spare time reading science fiction. He attended the April 2003 Tallulah Hearings called by Judge Mark Doherty of Orleans Parish and wrote an article for his school. Keva Carr, a member of a Students at the Center class at Frederick Douglass Senior High School in New Orleans, shared the following poem in a workshop presented with her teachers and classmates at the Critical Resistance South conference on Saturday, April 5. In the session, she explained to the group that she had sent this and other writings to her cousin, who is incarcerated in one of Louisiana's youth prisons. Most of the writings she has sent, including this one, have been returned to her, never having been read by her cousin. Her experiences with her cousin and her study of the Casey Foundation report to the state legislature made her interested in attending the hearing on the youth prison at Tallulah in Judge Doherty's juvenile court, section F, during the week of April 14. We often include real stories in our advocacy and outreach literature. We invite you to share your life experience by writing to us at info@jjpl.org.
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