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June 20, 1993 | LYNELL GEORGE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
When whisper-quiet Aretha Joshua assumed her rough-and-tumble persona--Sister Saved--for the behatted ladies filling Harvest Tabernacle's pews, the welcome was far from open-armed. "The mothers of the church were down in front saying: '. . . All that rap . . . that's just noise,' " Joshua explains. "Then I came out and said, 'Wait, all rap ain't bad!' " 'Oh yeah?' they said," Joshua recalls, giggling and shaking her head. "Those moms, they were hard!
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June 20, 1993 | LYNELL GEORGE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
When whisper-quiet Aretha Joshua assumed her rough-and-tumble persona--Sister Saved--for the behatted ladies filling Harvest Tabernacle's pews, the welcome was far from open-armed. "The mothers of the church were down in front saying: '. . . All that rap . . . that's just noise,' " Joshua explains. "Then I came out and said, 'Wait, all rap ain't bad!' " 'Oh yeah?' they said," Joshua recalls, giggling and shaking her head. "Those moms, they were hard!
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October 11, 1992 | ELSTON CARR, Street Level is a weekly column featuring grass - roots commentary on community issues . This week's column expresses the views of Aretha Joshua, a former gang member in South-Central Los Angeles who is now a cashier at a local supermarket. She was interviewed by Elston Carr
I'm 24, and I've lived in Los Angeles all my life. I grew up on 36th Street. I went to junior high at Foshay and I went to high school at Los Angeles High and Manual Arts. I got involved in gangs, mostly from school. That was the group to be in. I was in a gang from junior high to high school. There were mostly guys in our gang. There were never any problems with them. But if they had a problem with a girl, they would come and get us to beat up some girl. This was from 1982 to 1986.
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October 11, 1992 | ELSTON CARR, Street Level is a weekly column featuring grass - roots commentary on community issues . This week's column expresses the views of Aretha Joshua, a former gang member in South-Central Los Angeles who is now a cashier at a local supermarket. She was interviewed by Elston Carr
I'm 24, and I've lived in Los Angeles all my life. I grew up on 36th Street. I went to junior high at Foshay and I went to high school at Los Angeles High and Manual Arts. I got involved in gangs, mostly from school. That was the group to be in. I was in a gang from junior high to high school. There were mostly guys in our gang. There were never any problems with them. But if they had a problem with a girl, they would come and get us to beat up some girl. This was from 1982 to 1986.
