Tag: Homeboy Industries
For Homeboy Industries, a Bakery, Tattoo Removal, and Now Housing?
The legendary Los Angeles gang intervention program is looking to build a 157-unit complex for ‘homies’ at risk of becoming homeless
Homeboy Industries Now Has an E-Waste Recycling Business
As if baking delicious pastries and supporting ex-gang members weren't admirable enough
Homegirl Cafe Is Now Running the Commissary at Culver Studios
Homeboy Industries' influence, and incredible food, moves west
See Father Gregory Boyle’s Autocorrect Fails-Inspired Thought of the Day
Who knew misspellings could be so motivational?
Hike Beneath the Original 6th Street Bridge Before It’s Gone
L.A.’s Urban Rangers are going down to the river this weekend—and you’re invited
Homeboy Industries’ New Food Truck Serves Six Types of Chilaquiles
Downtown L.A.’s Homeboy Industries launches a new gourmet Mexican food truck
The Sound of Hooves Clapping in the Hood
Horses in the Hood, a program that offers riding camps to the children of Watts and Compton, paired up with Father Greg Boyle's Homeboy Industries for the first time this summer. The positive results were on display Friday.
Saint of the Hood
With Homeboy Industries, Father Gregory Boyle has turned the nation’s gang capital into an unlikely place of redemption. Behind one of L.A.’s great stories of moral uplift lies a 25-year struggle between a priest’s unlimited compassion and a city’s harshest realities
A Stroke of Love: Artist Fabian Debora on Painting Father Gregory Boyle For Los Angeles Magazine
Fabian Debora, a former gang member and drug addict who now heads Homeboy Industries' drug and alcohol abuse program, tells us how Father Gregory Boyle—and art—helped save his life
