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Like many thirteen-year-olds, Yasmin Bandara doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up. Her parents want her to be a doctor, and expect her to focus on school – the only computer game they allow her to play is purely educational (yawn!). Yasmin gets so good at it that the game’s company invites her to play at a national competition. Her friends, teachers, and family are mega excited about the opportunity, but Yasmin’s not!

In 1971, Eddie Conway, lieutenant of security for the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party, was convicted of murdering a police officer and sentenced to life plus 30 years. Paul Coates was a community worker at the time and didn’t know Eddie well, and the little he knew, he didn’t much like. But Paul was dead certain that Eddie’s charges were bogus. He vowed never to leave Eddie - and in so doing, changed the course of both their lives. For over 43 years, as he raised a family and started a business, Paul visited Eddie in prison, often taking his kids with him.