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Washington Informer The Northeast Performing Arts Group held their 19th Annual Candlelight and Memorial Vigil & Rally in Loving Memory of D.C. Youth who lost their lives through homicide in 2009. Photo By Victor Holt
The Northeast Performing Arts Group held their 19th Annual Candlelight and Memorial Vigil & Rally in Loving Memory of D.C. Youth who lost their lives through homicide in 2009. The vigil was held on Thu., Dec., 31 at the Northeast Outreach Youth Center on Benning Road in Northeast.

Melvin Deal, Director of the African Heritage Dance and Drummers, recited the names of the deceased youth, along with the following prayer. “For the past 19 years we have held this memorial vigil, and hope it will be the last. We are sending a message of hope and peace for the future and the lives of our youth living in Washington, D.C. to come together in peace to homicide.”
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