"When best-selling author and BET reality TV star Angela Stanton-King received word on Tuesday that President Trump had just granted her a full pardon, she was literally overcome.
...“I was just crying like a baby. People thought someone had died.”
...“When I was released from prison 15 years ago,” she told Newsmax in an exclusive interview, “I was given a $25 check and a bus ticket and told to start my life over.
“I came home to four children, and I came home to two tombstones,” she said. “My mother was in one and my grandmother was in the other. “They’d both passed away while I was in prison.
...With Alveda King’s help, Stanton-King defied the odds.
She went on to write a best-selling book about her journey, Life of a Real Housewife.
The book launched her career as a publishing entrepreneur, and that led to a big role in a BET reality TV show.
She also founded the American King Foundation, a nonprofit focused on criminal-justice reform and reuniting families that have been separated by mass incarceration..."
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