Tepito Coffee and Tea House provides jobs for formerly incarcerated men and women.
Richard Cabral co-owns Tepito Coffee and Tea House in Pasadena. The shop is located in Vroman’s Bookstore on Colorado Boulevard. “My family has been involved in gangs since the 1970s, and I, too, would be involved in gangs,” Cabral said. “At age 13, I started my incarceration.”“I was arrested for attempted murder for shooting another gang member in East Los Angeles and facing 35 years to life,” Cabral said. “I got five years in prison and ended up at the organization Homeboy Industries.
Cabral’s IMDB profile boasts dozens of his credits, one of the more recent being his work on Peacock’s “Twisted Metal.” However, Cabral doesn’t think his story is unique, and believes “there are millions of my stories in America.” Cabral found power in accepting what he called “hard truths” and is now the master of his own story.
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