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Chicago activist Derrick Durr says young black men are fed a 鈥渟poonful of hate鈥� every day when city police stop them, rough them up and search them. Over the past years, as friends and neighbors have died, he slowly hatched the idea of getting rivals together for a meal. When it happned this year, 60 young men met at a Chicago steakhouse. People paired off and talked and made amends, and so far the truce is working. 鈥淲e鈥檝e got all these problems and I thought, 鈥榃hy can鈥檛 we handle it on our own?鈥欌�� Durr says in this conversation with guest host Sean Cole. He says he鈥檚 won the city-wide Heavy Weight Golden Gloves boxing title, and that he鈥檚 thinking of running for local office.
Also in this edition of The Story: Walking along the Hudson River, guest host Sean Cole and his friend Malissa O鈥橠onnell discover .
