Michelangelo Payne
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"I was empty, I was broken," says Michelangelo Payne of the day he arrived at the Central Union Mission two years ago. The shelter for men and is the oldest social services agency in the District. Founded in 1881 by the Rev. Latham Douglass, many of the men it first served were Civil War veterans wandering along Pennsylvania Avenue. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Central Union Mission staffer and former client Michelangelo Payne runs boxes of fresh fruit over to the Mount Gilead Baptist Church on 13th Street Northwest. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
