Orphaned young and raised on the streets, this young man became a music and TV icon

Before the world knew him as the face of justice on television or the pioneer of gangsta rap, there was only a boy in Newark facing a silence so profound it could swallow a soul. Losing both parents before his thirteenth birthday left him adrift, a child navigating a landscape of grief and abandonment that would have broken most. He was a boy staring continue reading …