Claudio Miranda's Music Is Taming a Once-Savage Brazilian Neighborhood

Claudio Miranda's music is taming a once-savage Brazilian neighborhood

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Miranda dreamed that his neighbors, especially young ones who fell into drug abuse, would have a place to reimagine themselves creatively through music, video production, art, performances, and education. Today, his home swarms with kids playing …
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Heroes of Redfern walk the walk

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I recall the long campaign he waged against the needle-exchange buses that fuelled the illicit drug epidemic in Redfern's Aboriginal community. This was a bracing street-level confrontation with the addicts and dealers among his own people, as well as …
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Life and times of a former Charlotte drug lord

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He told me he was a Christian, he had never sold drugs and that he wanted to open a drug rehab center in Charlotte. He also told me Big Lou was a lot like a dinosaur – big old …. If he has a fault, as dealer or minister, it's a tendency to over …
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