The story of the Homeboys in Alabama is very interesting, but the LAT demanded me removing the video. Anyway, I recommend that you access the LAT and watch the video, it's worthwhile.
Originated with Trayvon Earl Jeffers, a member of the group who was supposed to be a part of this year's trip to Prichard. Just weeks before the journey, Trayvon was shot and killed, an apparent victim of the gang violence he was trying to escape.
Trayvon came to the Los Angeles Times' attention during a series of interviews in January on the presidential inauguration and its theme of "renewing America's promise." When asked what that meant to him, Trayvon said, "It's getting back to the basics and going to the people we forgot about, the individuals in the ghettos, in the gangs, the individuals just getting out of prison that are trying to do good and make a way for themselves.
It's the promise that if you pay your debt to society, you come back and you do right, we'll make sure we'll take care of you, we'll have a way for you...it's about no more false hope."
It was with a tremendous sense of loss that we heard of his passing. Wanting to know more about the young man we had briefly met only months earlier, we dug up a short essay Trayvon wrote for the Homeboy Review, a publication that Homeboy Industries produces through its writing class.
In this essay Trayvon reflects on a special journey he made to Alabama, the deep connection with the kids there and his commitment to one day return. That powerful essay became the catalyst for this report. Read "A Journey for the First Time," Trayvon Earl Jeffers.
The Homicide Report gives the account of Trayvon's life, beginning with his upbringing in Compton and his initiation into gang and prison life, followed by his rehabilitation and untimely tragic death.
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