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For Immediate Release Mobile app CEO and award-winning author go back into jails, 10 years after their release from prison as co-defendants and after winning prestigious Booz Allen Hamilton Aspen Ideas Award Marcus Bullock, CEO of Flikshop and Flikshop School of Business, and Dwayne Betts, award winning author of ‘Bastards of the Reagan Era’ have just won the prestigious Booz Allen Hamilton Ideas Award at the renowned Aspen Ideas Festival. Their project entitled ‘Returning Ho

I lived in Walker Mill, Maryland and Dwayne lived in Suitland, Maryland when we shared that memorable night in 1996 together in a holding cell. We both went to Suitland High School, where the basketball team and Math club were our claims to fame. We were both a couple of really bright kids, and whenever given the opportunity we would prove it by lighting fire to some argument about girls, sports, or even the reason why working at the chop shop was probably smarter than sellin

It was almost a year ago, and I only began to remember how the night really went once my attorney brought the video surveillance tape to my house to review it with me. I honestly think that it was asking a bit much of me to remember much of the moment, but I can tell you that eventhough my head was leaking with blood and my scull was cracked, I could hear my moms screaming "Marcuuuussss!" "Ma! I'm alive...I'm alive!!" Maybe it was because she just watched this officer draw fr

up by one officer screaming "Count!" and another idiot with his screaching whistle blowing. I stretched my linky legs off the top bunk, and just as I did every morning, I jumped down into my $7.50 commissary shower shoes that had been tattooed with my nickname "$moke" all over them. It was my birthday! November 28th. Yet another day that my body shivered with the cold reality of being stuck in the one place that nobody ever wants to be...and there is nothing that I or anyone

Wake up...get dressed...go to work...come home...pay bills...interact with Mommy...play with me...do homework with me...pray with me before bed...lets do it again! This is the typical day that my son, Marcus Bullock Jr., sees when he looks at his Daddy. He looks at me and says to me that he would also love to work in his own office. My oh my, how I wished that my father would have delivered the kind of vision of manhood that my son grows up seeing within himself, as the son o