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The House That Mama Hill Built
In honor of Black History Month, the Web team offers this short video profiling a local hero fighting to keep her home.
Millicent Hill, better known as Mama Hill, runs an after-school program in Watts for at-risk youth. Hill developed the "Safe Passage"program to help transport children from different gang-affiliated neighborhoods to her home, where she helps them stay on top of their school work and out of gang life.
Over one hundred children a month take part in Mama Hill's Help Inc.
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