Despite the persistence of poverty, gang activity, drugs abuse, violence, criminality, and other problems that blight the black community, there remains people able to overcome these…
adversities. From the youth we see children who still respect their elders and teenagers with aspirations beyond the neighborhood corners, parks, and shopping malls. We see in our families the integral wire maintaining the basis of security, love, and prosperity between mothers, fathers, and their children. People are working hard everyday building businesses, collaborating with schools, improving government, and serving in their churches. They are students, mothers, fathers, teachers, civil servants, volunteers, and neighborhood pioneers. They are the pride of the community.