Taking Care of Business
Newsweek, May, 2002 by Allison Samuels
Ask Tampa Bay wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson where he was 10 years ago this week, and he gives you a sheepish grin. "I responded the way most black young men 18 or 19 years old did during that time," says Johnson, now 29, who was attending the University of Southern California on a football scholarship when he learned that his boyhood neighborhood of South-Central was on fire. "I couldn't sit home and watch it on television. I think everyone around there was thinking, 'What do we have to lose?' South-Central was hell way before the riots."
Whenever Johnson returns, he's reminded of a poor childhood spent sleeping in cars and serving time in juvie. And so it is with a measure of pride on this trip that he arrives at a new shopping center he helped get built at the corner of...
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