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Ex-gang member, the Reverend Eugene F. Rivers, 3rd was born in Boston, Massachusetts, raised in South Chicago and Northwest Philadelphia, and educated at Harvard University. The husband of Jacqueline C. Rivers and father of Kaia, Malcolm, and Sojournci, the Reverend Rivers is pastor of the Azusa Christian Community in Four Corners, an inner-city section of Boston where he also lives with his family.He is the author of The TenPoint Plan for a National Church Mobilization to Combat Black-on-Black Violenceand a Co-Founder of the internationally recognized Boston TenPoint Coalition. As Co-Chair of the National TenPoint Leadership Foundation, he is currently working to cultivate new grassroots church leadership in forty of the most violent inner-city neighborhoods in the country by the year 2006, replicating the Boston faith-community, law enforcement partnership success. He is also working with the World Council of Churches Program to Overcome Violence to adapt the U.S. violence prevention model to local conditions in various cities internationally.
Reverend Rivers is a contributing editor to Sojourners magazine and a frequent contributor to a variety of national periodicals. He is also the author of the two forthcoming collections of essays entitled “On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack”and“Beyond the Nationalism of Fools: A Manifesto for a New Black Movement”.
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