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Michael on Finding His Heritage

I still have a home on the reservation and I’d like to eventually go back and build another one. My life and cult...

John on Helping the Youth

One day, I just got so tired of all of the dying and couldn't take it any more. I decided to do everything in my po...

B.J. on the White People Moving in

For 30 years or better, we lived how we lived. Then, the white people started moving in.

Derek on Being the Stereotype

I'm the stereotype of what all of you white folks think of black men in the ghetto.

Baker on Being an Endangered Species

If I am out here at night as a black man, I am like an endangered species. It don’t bother me, but that is the ch...

Lee on Miracles

We should all just help each other for the sake of helping. What other reason do you need?

Kymone on Failure Without Trying

We need to change our belief system. That is what I have been trying to do with my life.

Glenn on Having Love in Your Heart

Like my Momma said, 'Love is the only thing in the world that is going to help people.'

Mellow Yellow on Being Back with His People

Homeboy, do you know what it means to be kicked out of your country and not be able to go back?

Eugene ‘Thunder’ Hughes on the Midtown Youth Academy

People always tell me that I should change things here and make this place look new. I want to keep it the same way...

Shanell on Fighting for It

Sometimes I wonder how and why I got where I am today, but I guess that God has a bigger purpose for me.

Brother Hamza on Making Good on His Mistakes

I came back to Washington after I got out because this is where my problem began and, Insha’Allah, this is where ...

Etienne on Seeing His Son Again

But, I made some mistakes and my wife and the courts took my son away from me, so I now have no connection with my ...

Anthony aka Big An on Breaking the Cycle

You know, it is hard growing up on the streets because people ain't playing out here no more.

Cyndee on Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive

At HIPS, we are working to improve the health and welfare of sex workers rather than trying to 'save them' from wha...

Ray and William on a Parent and Four Kids Living on the Streets

After my wife died, I lost my job, and me and my four kids lost our house.

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