密歇根新闻广播 弗林特一名男性从囚犯变成导师的人生故事

 

From a youthful act that landed him in prison, to becoming a man whose life work is mentoring¹ youth in Flint, Hubert Roberts offers a powerful lesson in redemption.

Now that story is being told through the work of a Michigan State University professor and her team.

Their project is called Hubert: His-Story. It's a documentary film and a comic book that feature the life and work of Hubert Roberts of Flint.

Roberts joined us today, along with Geri Alumit Zeldes, associate professor and director of Journalism² Graduate Studies at MSU.

Roberts was convicted of conspiracy³ to commit kidnapping and aggravated⁴ assault when he was 29. He served 17 years in prison.

Since his release, he's been working to ensure other young people don't make the same mistakes that he did.

Zeldes and her team followed Roberts for a year, and met some of his students at Northwest High School.

"We show through the days that we followed Mr. Roberts, how much he means to these young men and women," she says. "He really has become a father figure for not just one student, but many of the young men."

Roberts says getting young people to know their history is "the foundation" of his work.

"If you don't know what happened behind you, how are you going to have a clue what's happening around you or in front of you? So that's really, really important," he says.

"We're trying to get these children to think outside of the box, and they have to have an understanding about where they came from for that to be a possibility."

Listen to our full conversation above for more about Roberts' work and the upcoming documentary.

Hubert: His-Story will debut⁵ Friday, November 4 at Northwestern High School in Flint.

1 mentoring   

n.mentoring是一种工作关系。mentor通常是处在比mentee更高工作职位上的有影响力的人。他/她有比‘mentee’更丰富的工作经验和知识，并用心支持mentee的职业（发展）。v.（无经验之人的）有经验可信赖的顾问( mentor的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• One of the most effective instruments for coaching and mentoring is the "role rehearsal" . 辅导和教学的最有效的手段之一是“角色排练。” 来自辞典例句
• Bell Canada called their mentoring system a buddy-buddy system. 加拿大贝尔公司称他们的训导系统是伙伴—伙伴系统。 来自互联网

2 journalism   

n.新闻工作，报业

参考例句：

• He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师，可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
• He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。

3 conspiracy   

n.阴谋，密谋，共谋

参考例句：

• The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
• He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。

4 aggravated   

使恶化( aggravate的过去式和过去分词 )； 使更严重； 激怒； 使恼火

参考例句：

• If he aggravated me any more I shall hit him. 假如他再激怒我，我就要揍他。
• Far from relieving my cough, the medicine aggravated it. 这药非但不镇咳，反而使我咳嗽得更厉害。

5 debut   

n.首次演出，初次露面

参考例句：

• That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
• The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。