Carl Weathers has narrated 2 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Pen Pal.
Pen Pal
Summary
Tiyo Attallah Salah-El died in 2018 on “Slow Death Row” while serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania prison. He was a man with a dizzying array of talents and vocations: author, scholar, teacher, musician, and activist: he was the founder of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons. He was also, as is apparent from the letters written over a decade and half to his friend Paul Alan Smith that make up this book, an extraordinarily eloquent correspondent. Tiyo’s missives present a vivid picture of the tribulations faced by those incarcerated, especially the nearly 60 percent who are non-white: habitual racism, arbitrary lockdowns, brutal beatings and hospitalizations, stifling heat and bitter cold. Here too are descriptions of Tiyo’s individual struggles with cancer, aging, and the sirens of personal demons. Tiyo’s refusal to succumb to such hardships is evident in dispatches that are generous, philosophical and often laugh-out-loud funny. Through them we learn of his many friendships, including those with the historian Howard Zinn, a range of activist/advocate supporters on the outside, and two fellow inmates who were leaders of the Black liberation group MOVE. At a time when the appalling racial bias of America’s police and criminal justice system is under the spotlight as never before, Pen Pal is both a vital intervention and moving portrait of someone whose physical confinement could never extinguish an extraordinary free spirit.
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Reposition Yourself Reflections
Summary
This is a compendium of daily meditations for listeners, reflecting the spiritual principles taught in T. D. Jakes's Reposition Yourself. It includes the bishop's thoughts and advice for each day, as well as scripture to accompany each meditation. Jakes encourages all to "reposition" their approach to healing their relationships, finances, faith, and much more, withe goal of enhancing forward thinking and spiritual development. This collection of meditations will help the bishop's followers to expand and grow on a daily basis. The audio opens with a live recording of Jakes' incomparably inspiring May 2007 speech before a capacity audience packed with vocal and enthusiastic fans at the Apollo Theater. It's an electric, 45-minute piece of spiritual theater that showcases Jakes at his uplifting, crowd-pleasing, rabble-rousing best.
©2007 TDJ Enterprises (P)2008 Simon and Schuster Inc.