The Amer-I-Can Foundation continues to work successfully in Los Angeles to help lower gang violence. Unfortunately Aqeela’s son, Terrell Sherrills, was shot to death in 2004 in an apparently random killing. Sherrills’s current focus is on what he terms the ‘Reverence Movement,’ a peace process that allows people to see the sacredness in one another. Sherrills believes the only true path to reconciliation begins from within. It’s a message he has made so accessible that he’s delivered it to communities around the world. Thus, he has advised government officials in Belfast and Serbia on the process of establishing non-violent communities; he has addressed the Hague and the United States Congress on the importance of peace, reverence, and non-violence; and he has brokered peace agreements between gangs in cities across the U.S.
