Geoffrey Canada
Geoffrey Canada is president of the Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families in New York City, and East Coast coordinator for the Black Community Crusade for Children.
— From August 1996
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
Fist Stick Knife Gun
If you wonder how a fourteen-year-old can shoot another child in the head, or how boys can commit a drive-by shooting and then go home to dinner, you need to realize that one doesn’t get to that point in a day, or a week, or a month.
August 1996
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