"God's Love Kept Me Fighting"
An interview with author, boxer and justice champion Ephriam K. Bennett
In his by turns shocking, maddening, moving and hopeful memoir, God’s Love Kept Me Fighting, Ephriam “E” Bennett details his rise from the ghettos of Chicago through the corrupt world of professional boxing, and how his life was subsequently unravelled by bad relationships and business decisions that led to brutal prison sentences and culminated in a desperate home invasion by the shore of Bonny Eagle Lake one bitter winter day in 2009, a crime that landed him in Maine State Prison.
As Bollard columnist Leo Hylton has described (see his column in our May issue), E turned his troubles into opportunities to uplift others, even — and especially — young men like Leo was when he entered prison: the lowest and most lost among us. Through faith, personal responsibility and service, E fights his way back into the world with a mission to change a punishment bureaucracy that itself has become criminal and pull young people like himself from its jaws.
In this interview at a Maine Department of Corrections post-release facility in Bangor, produced by Luigi Scarcelli for the Portland Media Center, Bollard editor Chris Busby interviews E about his life and the new book.
p.s. Theme music, “BSG,” by Riffindots.