by designteam | Aug 27, 2015 | Latest News
By Sarah Jane van Beek – International Director of The PeaceKeepers PR and Marketing I am Present for Peace. Summer 2015 began with Captain Dennis traveling to New Orleans, St Roch, to begin a project with our New Orleans PeaceKeepers chapter. The community in recent...
by designteam | Jul 23, 2015 | Latest News
On a hot but breezy Saturday in New Orleans over 300 community residents came out to RushCard “Keep the Peace” rally, to declare St.Roch area “Ground Zero for Peace”. The park was full of excitement and peace as public officials, community...
by designteam | Apr 29, 2015 | Latest News
There is no question the challenges urban youth are facing today are more greater then when we grew up. Look at these staggering statistic. Incarceration Trends in America From 1980 to 2008, the number of people incarcerated in America quadrupled-from roughly...
by designteam | Apr 3, 2015 | Latest News
To many times we have seen a community respond to a crisis with all of the anger and heated emotions that comes with it. This kind of response sometimes do more harm then good. These heated emotions and anger make one quick to judgement and clouds one’s mind to...
by designteam | Apr 1, 2015 | Latest News
Russell Simmons, LL Cool J Visit Youth at NYC Rikers Island Jail by: The Associated Press (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)Jul 31, 2014 [ A+ ] /[ A- ] NEW YORK (AP) — A group of young people at a jail complex got some words of encouragement on Thursday from hip-hop mogul...
by designteam | Apr 1, 2015 | Latest News
Superman isn’t coming: Grassroots efforts to end urban violence By Rahiel Tesfamariam The unrest started last Saturday soon after 16-year-old Kimani Gray was shot down in Brooklyn by plainclothes NYPD officers. Outraged over his death, local residents took to the...
