How The Worst Kind Of Personal Sorrow Led LA Violence Reduction Expert Aqeela Sherrills To Help Newark, NJ, Lower Its Murder Rate

Aqeela Sherills was born in the Jordan Downs housing projects of Watts, and came of age in the mid-1980s when gang violence in Los Angeles was headed into its most deadly period. But although Sherrills and his brother Daude, were both Grape Street Crips, Aqeela was able to escape the streets for a few years to go college in 1987. His time at Cal State Northridge was “transformative,” and gave him an expanded perspective, he said.

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