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NBC News Making a Difference: A Good Fight – Detroit Boxing Gym Gets Kids Off the Streets

NBCNews.com – Making a Difference October 22, 2014 Click here to watch the video.   On the bleak east side of Detroit, a boxing coach is
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Avalon International Breads Packs a Punch with Downtown Boxing Gym

Originally posted on Avalon Website Blog: Posted on July 21, 2014 by Avalon Avalon’s 3 Bottom Lines- Earth, Community, Employees- are both our path and
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B.L.A.C. Detroit: Downtown Boxing Youth Program Founder ‘Coach Khali’ Sweeney

The Detroit nonprofit and its founder provide kids from all over the metro Detroit area a place to learn boxing and work toward a safe,
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At Detroit’s Downtown Boxing Gym, kids find athletic and academic success

On a cold December day in East Detroit, a dozen kids form a human assembly line stretching across the parking lot of the Downtown Boxing
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Downtown Boxing Gym student: ‘My teachers and my coaches inspire me’

By Mary Murray, Senior Producer, NBC News Khali Sweeney, a boxing trainer on Detroit’s east side, paced the cement floor and stared at the clock.
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Hour Detroit: Downtown Boxing Gym Teaches Life Lessons

THE GOOD FIGHT: Downtown Boxing Gym’s program offers serious training — and attitude adjustments By Monica Mercer, Hour Detroit Published: February 15, 2013 Overusing an
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