Two Chicago teens chronicle life in the Ida B. Wells projects, capturing poverty, violence, and their struggle to survive.
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Two Chicago teens chronicle life in the Ida B. Wells projects, capturing poverty, violence, and their struggle to survive.
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Through two award-winning National Public Radio documentaries, and now this powerful book, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman have made it their mission to be loud voices from one of this country's darkest places, Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing project. Set against the stunning photographs of a talented young photographer from the projects, Our America evokes the unforgiving world of these two amazing young men, and their struggle to survive unrelenting tragedy. With a gift for clear-eyed journalism,...
What's Inside
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Child dropped to death from 14th floor; pervasive project and street violence
Profanity
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Substance use
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Drug dealing encountered; drugs as recurring community hazard
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central themes of poverty, racism, public housing, and urban inequality
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Child murdered by peers; systemic trauma; kids lose innocence early
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