Dwayne Betts Profile
Dwayne Betts

@dwaynebetts

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Joined November 2009
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@cheesetrader1
Cheesetrader
3 months
@Econlib @EconTalker Per request - top of my head 5 episodes @EconTalker which have stuck with me (From a LOOONG list) McArdle on internet shaming & civility Keith Smith of Oklahoma Surgery Center Mike Munger - the Uber/Sharing economy Dwayne Betts - first episode Alain Bertraud - Urban planning
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@dwaynebetts
Dwayne Betts
6 months
Part 3: An honor to share The Things We Carry @politicsprose in DC. You can read the rest of my poem in my new book of #poetry, #doggerel. #naturelover #justicelover #freedomreads #randomactofpoetry #healing #WashingtonDC #LiteraryEvents #NaturePoetry
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@dwaynebetts
Dwayne Betts
6 months
Part 2: An honor to share #canary from #doggerel at @politicsprose in DC— you can read the rest in my newest book of poetry, Doggerel. #poetry #naturelover #justicelover #freedomreads #randomactofpoetry
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@dwaynebetts
Dwayne Betts
6 months
Part 1: An honor to share my story & poems from #doggerel at @politicsprose in DC—where words have the power to spark change. Grateful for the conversation, the community, and the poetry that connects us all. #poetry #naturelover #justicelover #freedomreads #randomactofpoetry
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@GoAngelo
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6 months
1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed. Put simply: right-wing has narrative dominance. My org (@mmfa) did this study and been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...
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Dwayne Betts
6 months
What’s the dude who sold twitter to Musk saying? Just wondering what role the sale of this huge communications platform has to do with the profound number of crisis that the world wakes up to daily.
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@dwaynebetts
Dwayne Betts
6 months
Also, why not - I'll invite you to listen to this short interview with me on NPR last week, if you're not sleeping - this will settle your disquiet, maybe:
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new collection of poems, "Doggerel," a meditation on family, friendship and falling in love.
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@dwaynebetts
Dwayne Betts
6 months
Just came back for a PSA: sleep still the cousin of death.
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Dwayne Betts
6 months
It’s rare to write and publish a book while in prison, more rare to do what @JohnJLennon1 is doing. This is going to be dope -
@CeladonBooks
Celadon Books
6 months
📖 Announcing…THE TRAGEDY OF TRUE CRIME by @JohnJLennon1, a first-person journalistic account of the lives of four men who have killed, written by a man who has killed. Coming Sept 2025. Pre-order now: https://t.co/iJsKSTEFpb
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derek guy
7 months
home ownership in the US is now out of reach for many, including me. by posting these comments about famous conservatives, i get hundreds of replies, earning me $3/ post. this puts me closer to owning a home in a walkable neighborhood without engaging in misinformation or racism
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@million_book
Freedom Reads
7 months
"It was that essay that presented a real argument about who I might be in the world." Freedom Reads Founder @dwaynebetts spoke w/ @cspan about his afterword to @HarperCollins' commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." https://t.co/xvvPljrZK1
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Reginald Dwayne Betts talked about the impact that Dr. King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" had on him when he read it in prison and the life he has led since getting out, including founding Freedom...
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Freedom Reads
8 months
"It’s the stories that will create the tide that makes us look at each other differently." Last week at the @cambridgepl, Freedom Reads Founder & CEO @dwaynebetts spoke about the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. https://t.co/FNm4GqjqxV
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Poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy
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Dwayne Betts
8 months
This is some good work, if you needed a speech to listen to today:
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@million_book
Freedom Reads
8 months
Read Freedom Reads Founder & CEO @dwaynebetts' piece for @OprahDaily about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy ⬇️
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Reginald Dwayne Betts went from being a 16-year-old facing a nine-year prison sentence to a MacArthur “genius,” an award-winning author, and a nonprofit founder. Dr. King’s legacy taught him that no...
@OprahDaily
Oprah Daily
8 months
What Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy Means Today
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@RaymondBonwell
Raymond Bonwell
8 months
A reminder to vote for your favorite EconTalk (@econtalker) episodes of 2024. Can also find the poll at vote at https://t.co/6Wc5WehGjX. (PSA: can only vote for @DwayneBetts 6-3-2024, Injustice and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail", as "Best of 2024" and not "Best of all Time.")
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@Econlib
Econlib
8 months
Vote for your favorite @econtalker episodes of 2024!
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Freedom Reads
8 months
"Sometimes tears grow something like a tree, grow hope, grow possibility." Freedom Reads Founder & CEO @dwaynebetts spoke for @TEDx about the Freedom Reads team and what it means to return to prisons with beautiful bookcases full of great literature.
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Dwayne Betts
9 months
I got every reason to feel I’ve made several mistakes here. But my kid says I look like a hippy. Maybe he said the unauthorized member of Black Hippy. Maybe K Dot will give me a verse.
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