Yusef Shakur http://www.yusefshakur.org Tue, 04 May 2010 19:42:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Citizen covers Yusef’s presentation at teen violence summit http://www.yusefshakur.org/2010/05/citizen-covers-yusefs-presentation-at-teen-violence-summit/ http://www.yusefshakur.org/2010/05/citizen-covers-yusefs-presentation-at-teen-violence-summit/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 19:42:03 +0000 admin http://www.yusefshakur.org/?p=336 Free Stop the Violence teen-town hall meeting

Former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer and Yusef Shakur to speak

Detroit: In March 2010, students were evacuated from a school after a student detonated a homemade bomb in the building. In June 2009, seven teens, most of them summer school students, were shot at a Detroit bus stop. Then there was young Chris Walker, who lost his life in a shooting incident just off school grounds in Detroit.

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