How I Escaped From Life in a Los Angeles Gang

Published March 28, 2013

How I escaped from life in a Los Angeles gang

Filed under: Overcome Cocaine Addiction

He grew up in Boyle Heights, "one of the poorest housing projects west of the Mississippi", in downtown Los Angeles at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. Boyle Heights was also home to … "Eventually I couldn't beat the gangs and …
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Let's face it, Essence Magazine has lost it's “Essence”

Filed under: Overcome Cocaine Addiction

Essence is one of the latest victims of the perpetual paper chase that turns us into the kinds of economic addicts that are produced by a racially-oppressive capitalist society. As Black kids, we grow up believing that our goal in life … Like the …
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