Wednesday, June 10, 2009
In most countries, defacing property with graffiti without the property owner's consent is considered vandalism, which is punishable by law. Sometimes graffiti is employed to communicate social and political messages. To some, it is an art form worthy of display in galleries and exhibitions; to ...more
Posted By Taylor Voss at 4:19 PM EST | Categories: Articles
Monday, January 12, 2009
It’s the phone call a mother prays she’ll never receive. A call from an authority claiming, “Your son or daughter has been arrested, please come down to the police station.” Or the call that asks, “How soon can you get to our emergency room your child is here being ...more
Posted By Gerald Bell at 5:14 PM EST | Categories: Articles
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Kadreidrah Marsh (15) shot over a boy by a 20 year old
Albert Vaughn (18) beat to death with a baseball bat by a 22 year old
Arthur Jones (10) caught in gang crossfire, shot by 17 year old
Roky Uriostegui (16) targeted and killed by a 16 year old gang member
MURDERED: Miguel Gomez,16 - ...more
Posted By Amy Williams at 12:00 AM EST | Categories: Articles
Thursday, September 25, 2008
It’s fast becoming a hard reality for many urban youth workers. Adding youth violence or gang intervention to their programming is now a necessity. How many who felt the call to work with at risk kids imagined it would mean head on confrontation with gang affiliated youth. Yet more and more ...more
Posted By Gerald Bell at 12:00 AM EST | Categories: Articles
Friday, July 25, 2008
It used to be that as youths, we could be excited about the prospects of a fight. Usually fights were scheduled for after school or in some cases the very last day of class. There was a love for the sound of “the 3 o’clock bell” – we could count on a good exchange of blows ...more
Posted By Nick Bolden at 12:00 AM EST | Categories: Articles
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