Aqeela Sherrills, the youngest of ten children, grew up in Watts, split in two by railroad tracks, the Bloods on one side, the Crips on the other, both in the vicious circle of drugs and violence. In 1992 Sherrills negotiated an historic peace treaty between the Crips and the Bloods, an initiative now expanded into 15 cities. When his son, Terrell, 18, was shot in the back in Watts in 2004, he refused to surrender his life to death.  Sherrills reclaims it and gives it new meaning with the Reverence Impulse, transforming a culture without respect for life to one that expresses authentic emotion and conquers hate with love.