ERI Book Club: Undiagnosed: The Ugly Side of Dyslexia by Ameer Baraka

Before he was an Emmy-nominated actor, Ameer Baraka was a teenager on the streets of 1980s New Orleans, incarcerated for manslaughter at just fourteen — and living with an undiagnosed learning disability that the world mistook for failure. In this raw, unflinching memoir, Baraka traces his journey from illiteracy and prison to self-discovery, revealing how a dyslexia diagnosis in his twenties became the turning point that let him finally learn to read — and to see himself differently. What follows is a story of rage transformed into purpose: Baraka now works to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, championing early dyslexia detection and mentoring the young people so often failed by systems that mistake struggle for incapacity.

Join us for a discussion of a memoir that asks hard questions about education, incarceration, and what gets lost when a struggling kid is labeled "bad" instead of "undiagnosed".

Undiagnosed: The Ugly Side of Dyslexia by Ameer Baraka --- link here to order book