Contributor(s): Author: Asha Bandele As a favor for a friend, a bright and talented young woman volunteered to read her poetry to a group of prisoners during a Black History Month program.
At the time, Rashid was serving a sentence of twenty yea.
It was an encounter that would alter her life forever, because it was there, in the prison, that she would meet Rashid, the man who was to become her friend, her confidant, her husband, her lover, her soul mate.
Contributor(s): Author: Asha Bandele As a favor for a friend, a bright and talented young woman volunteered to read her poetry to a group of prisoners during a Black History Month program