The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabrera. This. How seriously are you thinking ab it . Welcome to the ae files. Good to see you. Were here in your hometown of new orleans. In a Cafe Reconcile. Tell me why this is such a special place to you. Well, when i grew up, there was a Jesuit Priest who Half Finishing that run actually became the pastor of a downtown Inner City Church and started talking about ways to help kids and to connect people with money with people who needed money and he wanted to start a place where kids could have a Better Future and he said look, weathve got go to the toughest of the tough places and find the people who need help most. And the children and young people that are working here, kids that have lived the toughest of the toughst lives in america, some have been shot. Some of them with parents of children who have been shot. Some of them are young men and
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ayosz cross the street to the gym because there s been a death threat. when i got over there, i was in the locker room. all my friends run in and say there s a woman outside saying shemts to kill you. it was this angry white woman who was just as angry as she could be. she went to reach in her purse and one of my friends said she has a gun. they scattered. standing there by myself and she took out a card and threw it at me. it had written on it, your father s an n lover. he ruined the city. you should be ashamed of yourself. i wasn t an adult, but i was old enough and mature enough to kind of get what that was. even back then, it was part of all of our lives. i wasn t unique. that happened to lots of people in the city. what was striking, you say back then. but when you made the decision to remove confederate statues from places of honor here in new orleans, you met with some of those very same reactions.