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...loss of friends and family to drugs, gang violence and other criminal activity has a demoralizing effect on the children's own sense of future, he said...
There is a vacant lot at the corner of Quincy St and Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury, next door to a storefront bearing the name "Gang Peace." The ground is mostly dirt interrupted by patches of grass, but the place is pretty clean. It wasn't always that...
Rodney Dailey, the founder and executive director of Gang Peace, says that there used to be "bags of trash" all over the lot. The trash represented the "subculture of the community," says Dailey. A subculture which helps to "breed delinquent youth...
Dailey and Gang Peace are trying to clean...
...Gang Peace office is cramped. Just a small room with a TV and VCR for about 20-30 kids from the neighborhood who are in almost every day. AIDS education posters compete with quotes from Malcolm X on the walls. A flyer for the play "Our Young Black Men Are Dying and Nobody Seems To Care" lies on the table...