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Homeboy Industries -- Hope Has a New Address

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

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Marian Wright Edelman

Homeboy Industries is the largest gang intervention program in the US and is in the front ranks of diverting young people from the trajectory that leads to marginalized lives, imprisonment and premature death.

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Urban Kids Find The Magic

Charles Campbell | Posted 04.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Teaching Children to Read, Urban Kids, Importance of Reading, Urban Youth, How to Teach Children to Read, Youth Center, A Place Called Home, Living News
Charles Campbell

When it comes to literacy, the list of failing cities is as long as we are tall. This is my offering to begin fixing the deep-seated problems of worthlessness that afflict so many children who are not being encouraged to read.

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