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Misdeeds do not define you: Shaka Senghor at TED2014

on Mar 20, 2014

Writer, teacher and MIT Media Fellow Shaka Senghor gives the last talk of Session 10: Passion at TED2014, and he starts with a literal bang: When he was 19, he shot and killed another man. At the time, he was a young drug dealer “with a quick temper and a semi-automatic pistol.” Speaking to us […]

“Orange Is The New Black,” indeed: Piper Kerman gives a TEDx Talk on life in prison

By Kate Torgovnick May

on Oct 24, 2013

Many of us in the TED office have been in Orange Is the New Black withdrawal. We inhaled the first two seasons of the Netflix series, and have been waiting ever since for the new season to come out. If, like us, the mere mention of the show sends Regina Spektor’s “You’ve Got Time” blasting through your head, […]