even with tasha mack, it was canceled. it was like onto something else.re was like a resurgence. we got resuscitated. it's bigger than what the network thought it would be, actors thought it would be, network thought it would be. it's like, pitch me. it's great. >> i've never seen anything like it. when you all debuted on bet, you had had about 7, 8 million viewers. >> 7.7. you know what was crazy, i think it was more than that. i know the entire east coast was snowed in. we did a whole radio tour. they got together and had game parties. >> i had one. i had like 25 people in the crib. >> so 7.7 plus 25. >> don't forget my 25. i had cousins i don't even talk to come to watch the show. everybody, they all loved the game. >> okay. ladi ladies, ladies. thank you. okay. now, as you know, i am your new funding president. feel free to henceforth and forth with refer to me as madam president. to latinas it's el presidente and hood rats -- el presidente is still -- >> one of the things people like about "the game" is the representation of black people. it's divers

it was that tasha davis who ran the soundboard at grace and that tasha was truly like a part of my family. i had answered her phone number into my phone under the name that tasha davis/do wit. though she stood at just barely 5 feet tall we lovingly nicknamed her are little -- her huge smile quickwittedness and willingness to -- from everything from the sound system to the youth group made her and presence in her church. as the pastor of a small church like grace anyone who wants to help is appreciated but is strong talent spirit like natasha is an absolute treasure. that tasha i listened when i picked up the phone so as not to wake kelly. yes even though she barely said a word i could tell she was already in tears. i slipped my shoes on and headed down the staircase walked silently through the foyer and into the tiny bathroom our guest bedroom to let kelly continue sleeping. i stood uncomfortably between the baby blue bathtub in the bathroom sink which was eliminated -- illuminated by a strip of lightbulbs which resembled the tacky backroom dressing -- backstage dressing room. as i stated

. >> my name is tasha.name is swain. >> 37-year-old bernard "tasha" swain was serving a nine-month sentence for a parole violation. >> how do you make money on the streets? >> prostitution and selling drugs. >> one of the other things that bernard did on occasion inside l.a. county jail is to put on beauty pageants. like a peacock, so he wanted to show off his feathers. >> you know the miss america pageant? we do them in here but we do them for the boys and we have for girls and boys, the school boys. the vogue and all that kind of stuff like that. it's a variety of things you can run for. it's not just beauty. we cut up sheets and towels and make little dresses and you know. we destroy state property to make the outfits. >> do you make them look better? >> yes, actually. look at my face. >> we explored another special housing unit at l.a. county as well. the mental health ward where we encountered one of the most unforgettable scenes ever shown on "lockup." >> there was one gentleman in particular who i co

we stopped over at tasha and nene's house on the way here. >> peanut: man, them girls can drink. >> pookiehold on. cal, what is this? >> calvin: a poem. >> pookie: ohh! >> peanut: poem? >> pookie: oh, man. oh, this is terrible, shawty. "the first girl i ever loved... was tracie"? [ laughter ] >> peanut: okay, so, you mean to tell me you was like, "i love you, tracie," and she was like, "i don't even much like you"? >> calvin: dude, y'all are not helping. >> peanut: are you gonna keep the poem? >> pookie: look, cal, she turning you into a little punk, man. i don't know what happened to you, but that's why we here. come on. let's roll out. >> peanut: yeah, that's you. >> pookie: for real, dawg, we about to roll out. >> calvin: no, i don't want to go! >> pookie: hey, come on, man. we got to get you out of here, dawg. this ain't you. >> calvin: i'm -- i'm staying here. >> pookie: all right, look. well, beat this -- right? -- there is this strip club called the castle. p., tell him about the moroccan honey that work there. >> peanut: i don't know if she moroccan, but she got long hair, and she

>> reporter: tasha has realized just how much she didn't know about hers. james st.as her first professor at millikin and she learned a lot from him. >> i have this mental image of who i learned from and have a mental image who i learned from. >> reporter: now she has a different image. bloody photographs where he shot his sister in the chest and and others in the face. the georgetown newspaper, the georgetown advocate had been trying to figure out where st. james was after nearly 50 years of this horrific crime. when they found the once deemed insane man was a professor here, they broke the story. >> i cried because i'm a student but i'm also a mom. i can't even imagine. my son was 14 and he was 15. i just can't imagine anybody going through that. >> reporter: even now knowing his bloody path, she and dozens of their classmates agree they'll still recommend st. james' classes to any. >> he has done what our court system is set up for him to do and he did it and he has went above and beyond to, i think, used that experience to teach us students and to improve other p

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