Raymond Williams, president of the car club Swagga Like Us, sells dinner tickets at an event in Brownsville, N.Y. Members of dozens of clubs came to raise money for a gun buy-back program, to get weapons off the streets of New York's worst crime neighborhood.
All club members have leather vests with their club insignia on the back, their name over their heart and the names of close friends and family members who have died on the front. But not many have as much "bling" as Scott "Skee" Killiebrew though.
Andrea McCarthy (right front) says her name in the Ladee Vixenz Social Club is "Ju' C Fruit" - like the gum. McCarthy's older brother was shot by a friend when she was just 9 years old, here in the neighborhood, and she wants to prevent the same thing from happening to her three daughters.
The windshield of "Big Mike's" 1995 Chevy Caprice reads "Orange You Jealous?". He says people stop him on the street in Manhattan to take pictures of his orange and silver chrome dream. It is his sixth Chevy.
Today's Takeaway: Obesity Among the Homeless, Egyptian Elections, Morgan Stanley in Hot Water, and Have College Students Stopped Studying?
Why Increased Immigration is the Solution for America's Ailing Economy
Is the Private Era in Space Officially Upon Us?
Archer Records Keeps Vinyl and Detroit's Techno Scene Alive
Today's Takeaway: Over 50 and Unemployed, Texting in Class, The Future of Yemen, and Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America
Is the Private Era in Space Officially Upon Us?
College Students Either Studying as Hard as Ever, or Not Hard Enough
One-Third of US Homeless Population is Obese, According to New Study
Archer Records Keeps Vinyl and Detroit's Techno Scene Alive
Egypt's Youth and Today's Historic Presidential Election

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