A finishing school show, "From G's to Gents," tries to transform homeboys into gentlemen — or at least get them to cover their tattoos — with the help of Fonzworth Bentley, who was Sean Combs's valet.
In Boyle's heart, humility resides, and with the pen of a poet, he introduces us to the young men and women who stumble into Homeboy like soldiers from the frontlines, damaged by violence, abuse, abandonment, poverty, mental illness and the casualties inflicted by their own rage.
He promised, referring to himself, that the state had a "homeboy" in the White House.
Giuliani homeboy Peter King also got into the act.
After a three-month wait, Medina was accepted into the Homeboy Industries program of drug rehabilitation, counseling and jobs training.
I bumped into my homeboy Emeka who was working at the festival.
Organizations like Homeboy turn illiterate, unemployed gangsters into educated, employed gangsters.
"You bringing your homeboy here?" Suddenly a woman stepped into the thick of them.
And social Darwinism, which is by no means extinct, is shot down in a 1995 sequence of pictures by Miguel Calderon, in which the artist, wearing a spectacular Afro wig, poses nude in a simian crouch on the left, then gradually evolves into a Homo erectus homeboy toting an Uzi.
"I would often skip school to hang out with my old homeboys and get into trouble, including graffiti.
