BACKGROUND: Actress Felicia “Snoop” Pearson will speak to teens regarding her life experiences, which are detailed in her memoir “Grace After Midnight,” tomorrow as a part of the DTLR Book Club. Pearson, who starred in HBO's The Wire, was born ill and underweight from her mother's drug habits, and later worked for a crack dealer in East Baltimore.
At age 15 she killed a woman in self-defense and wound up in the Jessup State Penitentiary. She got a wakeup call when the notorious dealers she called Uncle and Father wound up respectively dead and imprisoned for life.
Once out on parole, Pearson took an assembly-line job and didn't give [her neighborhood dope dealers] a second glance, but after repeatedly getting fired because of her rap sheet, she returned to dealing before a chance meeting gave her a way off the street for good.
This isn't a light celebrity bio, but a powerful story of someone trying to find her way in a dark world, realizing she can still choose her life's direction even in tremendously difficult circumstances. Pearson's narrative is spare, even poetic, rendering traumatic moments all the more powerful.
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Interviews available with Felicia “Snoop” Pearson at the East End Library beginning at 3:15 p.m.
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About DTLR: For more than 25 years DTLR, a Baltimore- based, independent urban retail chain has been a leading retailer in the urban fashion industry. DTLR sells urban footwear, apparel, and music and currently operates in regions throughout the East coast and mid-west. DTLR has 70 stores in six regions: Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, North Carolina (Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro and Winston-Salem)
About the DTLR Book Club: The DTLR Book Club began in Baltimore in 2006. Since its inception the program has expanded several other regions where they chain has stores, including Richmond where DTLR works with East End Library to introduce young men to the joy and power of reading.
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