i Artist Presents: Author Michael Conliffe

i Artist Presents the return of Author Michael Conliffe on GD's "A Touch of Grace" the afternoon of Friday, 2/7/2014 at 1:30PM [Pacific Standard Time].  To listen into the show click the link,or: ON DAY OF SHOW ONLY: Call in to speak with the host (347) 215-7169.

More about Michael:

...Michael’s first breaths were taken in Harvey, Illinois, his birthplace, at Ingalls Hospital and he is currently living in Atlanta, Georgia.  He is currently a single father raising an eleven year old daughter, which is something that deserves recognition and praise, because there are many father’s who aren’t a part of their children’s lives at all, and here we have one raising one alone.  It is without a doubt a selfless and courageous act for anyone to raise a child alone, but he is amongst those “brothas” out there breaking the mold and changing society’s negative views about African-American men – especially young African-American men.

Eloquently put, as a consummate writer, he describes his process of redemption as the rehabilitation in his way of thinking. He said that he started looking at the world in another light, and not the way that many who know him would have expected him to.  He stated that he realized the trap that he had allowed himself to fall into, a trap that so many young black men have fallen into.  He further elaborated calling it a web that he was tangled in, he was a parolee who was about to be caught in a continuous cycle of arrest and then imprisonment...

full interview [http://author2be.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/interview-with-michael-conliffe-author-of-hotter-than-the-streetlife/]