Part 1. Ellen Ratner interviews Victor Rivas Rivers, anti-violence advocate, ex-Miami Dolphins player, actor, and member of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century, discusses his role against domestic violence as a man.
Rivers uses his personal story of growing up in a household torture and violence, how his village and high school saved him from being a member of a street gang to earning a college scholarship. (5:37)
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June 29, 2006
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