Pastors lead Silence the Violence meeting

April 10, 2012 | 10:32 p.m. CDT

Lorenzo Lawson, senior pastor at Chosen Generation Ministries, and Lester Woods Jr., senior pastor at Urban Empowerment Ministries, led the Silence The Violence meeting Tuesday evening. Woods believes that "the reason a lot of communities don't come together and do this is because it's hard."

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