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Katy Newton / Los Angeles Times

Alabama’s Homeboys

Posted By: Katy Newton
Posted On: 9:41 p.m. | July 30, 2010

Two members of Homeboy Industries, a Los Angeles gang-intervention group, go on a pilgrimage to work with impoverished children in a rural, largely segregated Alabama community.

The poverty is shocking — even for the Homeboys. But there is also much they recognize: drug dealers, shootings and desperate youth facing no way out. In these children, they find their calling.

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