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Chicago Trip
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Dana Stevens, Shelter of Hope
Dana started our guest speaker series by giving us a bus tour of North Lawndale and his
organization Studio 29:11. His vision, is to build a recording studio, coffee house, 300 seat performance center, and barber shop/school. He wants to build an oasis in this economic desert within the city and to speak life and truth into people who have been so bruised and battered by life. He explain to us that he believes that injustice steals the talents and resources of this living in the community.
“We have to help people improve - not try to change them." Kiri Youngblood, 2008
“I just see hopelessness, no identity, no self-worth. Churches segregated in the name of God, gangs segregated in the names of territories.”
Bryanna Riley, 2008
Discussion with Officer Pat Hill
We met with Ms. Pat Hill, Retired Chicago Police Officer and Executive Director of the National African American Police League, to discuss issues of policing in inner-city
communities. Her experience is that many officers in North Lawndale believe that there is nothing good in that community and that everyone is a criminal. She discussed concerns of police corruption such as planting evidence, racial profiling, and “us verse them” attitudes. She shared her own experience of being driven out of a public park by police officers and being told by one of the officers that, “I am the law!”
“You have shown me both sides of the story and I can now see why police can be so stereotypical. You have also shown me to look much deeper inside people, and not judge them by their skin, race, behavior, and etc.”
Robbie Binder, 2008