The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued via Zoom during the COVID 19 shutdown! Eleven us met on a Zoom conference and I must say that it was a very beneficial meeting! The man at the center of the book, William "Juneboy" Outlaw III logged in and answered all of our questions while giving us background on his life that wasn't included in the book. Outlaw had been one of the biggest drug dealers and gang leader in New Haven and is now a community activist and motivational speaker. He works with the group: CT VIP (Connecticut Violence Intervention Program. The book is amazingly narrative, reading almost like a best-selling novel. Charles Barber of Wesleyan University is the author, but this is truly Juneboy's story. He said it took five years to write the book and the publishers edited out a great deal of material. There is talk of a movie project in the works! Outlaw expressed his disappointment with the publisher's decision to leave out ...
The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series meets approximately once every six weeks at the Courtland S. Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library in New Haven, CT.