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Nov 2021
21m 38s

Get To Know Topeka K. Sams

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In this clip Tamika and Mysonne speak with Topeka K. Sams the founder and executive of "The Ladies of Hope Ministries" who spoke about her background story being in federal prison where she witnessed firsthand the epidemic and disparity of incarceration on women, and afterwards wanting to bring awareness to women’s incarceration and post-incarceration issues in order to change the criminal legal system.

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