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Teaching Kids the Costs of Urban Violence

After surviving a difficult childhood that included the death of his father, the loss of siblings to AIDS and suicide, and a drug habit he kicked as a young adult, Scott P. Charles began reaching out to troubled children in his hometown of Sacramento. He was recruited, in 1988, by a small nonprofit organization, the...

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