By Micah Danney, Photo: Micah Danney/JJIE, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, March 1, 2022
Three months after the gang he’d been devoted to lured Charles Kennebrew to a supposed meeting about gang business, then jumped and brutally beat him, the 37-year-old stood staring at a slave auction block in Washington, D.C.
Farther along, the now former gangster and others in their group of formerly incarcerated men navigated the National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibits on Black soldiers who fought in the Civil War and on civil rights heroes.
“You see?” began the former prosecutor, who’d organized that day trip down from New York for those 20- and 30-something former incarcerees she mentors. “Think about the history you were taught versus this history. Imagine if you had been taught this history. Think about that. Where would those boys be?”
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