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'Wire' star touts New Jersey prisoner reentry efforts
David Porter, Associated Press
Updated 4:02 pm CST, Friday, February 14, 2020
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) An actor celebrated for playing a murderous criminal on TV lent his voice Friday to a New Jersey nonprofit's efforts to smooth the journey for former prison inmates seeking to reenter society.
Michael K. Williams spoke passionately about his own efforts to use his celebrity to bring attention to criminal justice issues and, out of the public eye, steer young men and women away from paths that can lead to prison.
The actor best known for his role as Omar, the shotgun-toting gangster in HBO's The Wire, appeared at an event hosted by the New Jersey Reentry Corporation, a group headed by former Democratic New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey.
The Kearny-based organization provides job training, counseling and many other services to men and women who are released from prison as they return to communities they may have left decades before.
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https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Wire-star-touts-New-Jersey-prisoner-reentry-15057596.php
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'Wire' star touts New Jersey prisoner reentry efforts (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Feb 2020
OP
When they killed off Omar, I stopped watching the show. The other character I thought was ...
marble falls
Feb 2020
#3
Loved bubbles and Wallace. I've seen the bubbles actor in other parts and he definately ...
marble falls
Feb 2020
#5
Lord Ludd
(585 posts)1. Kudos to Michael K. Williams, a fine actor & humanitarian
Omar was the moral center of The Wire, a series that ranks at the top with The Sopranos & Breaking Bad, imo.
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)2. The Wire was amazing- and Michael K Williams was a big reason for that.
marble falls
(57,134 posts)3. When they killed off Omar, I stopped watching the show. The other character I thought was ...
electric was the girl in hitman duo that were leaving bodies in abandoned homes. And Stringer Bell. There were a lot of the gangsters that were characters and not just characterizations.
Loved Bump.
The politicians were all pretty stock and dismal.
Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)4. Wallace and Bubbles were great characters too.....nt
marble falls
(57,134 posts)5. Loved bubbles and Wallace. I've seen the bubbles actor in other parts and he definately ...
has a human side that shows thru.
Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)6. Omar be listenin' .....nt