Serena Williams speaks to victims of violence and the people who help them at Yetunde Price Resource Center
by Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times
Dec 01, 2018
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES_Serena Williams looked at the women gathered in the cozy room and recognized their souls, if not their faces.
On a rare visit to Compton, where she and her sister Venus grew up and learned to swing a tennis racket in earnest, Williams spoke to a rapt audience of about 20 black women at the Yetunde Price Resource Center on Friday. The center, housed in a small storefront on West Compton Boulevard, is named for the Williams sisters' eldest sister, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in 2003. Serena and Venus were the forces behind
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