ABSTRACT
Perhaps all that went into the making of Shane Price culminated in the summer of 2002 as he walked the streets on a steamy evening in North Minneapolis calming neighborhood residents after yet another police shooting. All his training in conflict resolution, his work with the Native Community on building Healing Circles of Trust, his reaching out for years to the youth on Minneapolis street corners and in classrooms, served him well as tensions rose. On that night, and subsequent nights, Shane Price, along with other African American men and women, some his mentors from childhood, kept violence from building to a point where it could have claimed a life. While allowing for the expression of pain and anger, he and others in the community-ministers, activists, business leaders-also asked for peace. Gradually tempers cooled and talks began.
