Our America
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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, they tell their own stories and others, including that of the death of Eric Morse, a five-year-old who was dropped to his death from the fourteenth floor of an Ida B. Wells apartment building by two other little boys. Sometimes funny, often painful, but always charged with their dream of Our America, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman reach out to grab your attention and break your heart.
Preface by Dr. Cornel West Acknowledgments Introduction by David Isay Author's Note A Ghetto Glossary Part I: Life — 1993 1. The Beginning 2. The 'Hood 3. School 4. Kicking It 5. LeAlan 6. Lloyd 7. Ghetto Getaway 8. Peace Out: 1993 Part II: Death — 1995 9. Messengers 10. The Scene of the Crime 11. From the Outside, Looking In 12. A Breakthrough 13. Juvenile Justice 14. Falling Through the Cracks 15. Both Sides of the Law 16. Shorties in the 'Hood 17. Closer Than We Imagined 18. Remorse Part III: Life — 1996 19. The Maze 20. The 'Hood 21. School 22. LeAlan 23. Lloyd 24. Parting Words 25. Our America
