Boston pastor fights crime with peace
Reverend Culpepper and MC Spice [photo: Starr Watkins/Shakur Multimedia] Pleasant Hill Baptist Church sits atop a hill in Roxbury, Massachusetts at the corner of Humboldt and Waumbeck streets. This area is known to so-called gang members as "H-Block". What was once a gang of teens who represented the whole of Humboldt and the surrounding streets, "H-Block" has been divided into two sections as of late. Now there's "HB-1" and "HB-2" and they are officially "at war". According to Reverend Culpepper, most of the street wars stem from "beefs" about girls. In fact, the pastor says there's a 75% chance that most or all of the beefs are caused by some friction about a girl and how some of the young men are trying to impress them with their "gangster". But Pleasant Hill Baptist Church does not run from these so-called gang-bangers. Instead, Reverend Culpepper meets the violence and crime head-on and during the