Gangs, Disability, and Basketball
by
Melvin Juette, Ronald J. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a gang-related shooting was “both the worst and best thing that happened” to him. The incident, he believes, surely spared the then sixteen year-old African American from prison and/or an early death. It transformed him in other ways, too. He attended...