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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 13 > Bringing races together in Watts, Irish priest works a service at a time

Bringing races together in Watts, Irish priest works a service at a time

By Ari B. Bloomekatz / The Bulletin
June 13, 2009

LOS ANGELES — To those who know it only by reputation, the Nickerson Gardens housing development is a forbidding place, plagued by violence and poverty and ruled by black gangs.

So naturally, Father Peter Banks brought 200 Hispanic parishioners there in December for a posada, a....

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