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Shaka Senghor Timeline & Summary

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Shaka Senghor Timeline & Summary

  • Shaka's parents decide to separate and have an on and off relationship for a while.
  • Shaka moves out of his mom's house.
  • He takes a job selling drugs.
  • Then, he's shot in a dispute.
  • Meanwhile, he and his girlfriend Brenda find out they are expecting a child.
  • Shaka fatally shoots someone when a drug deal goes sour.
  • He's sentenced to prison.
  • Shaka gets a story published in a prison newsletter and an editor tells him he could have a future in writing.
  • Eventually, he reaches the moment when he forgives himself and others and starts really changing.
  • He receives a life-changing letter from his son Jay.
  • Then, he meets Ebony.
  • Shaka is then released from prison.
  • He receives a BMe (Black Male Engagement) award from the Knight Foundation and meets folks from The MIT Media Lab and IDEO and they start a collaboration to help Detroit.