Almost 30 years ago on this program, we introduced listeners to two boys from Chicago. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST, "GHETTO LIFE 101") LEALAN JONES, BYLINE: My name's LeAlan Jones, and I'm 13 ...

Lloyd Newman, who teamed up with a fellow teenager in the 1990s to record two award-winning radio documentaries that bared the pernicious underside of growing up in a Chicago public housing project, ...

LeAlan Jones rushes onto the West Chatham Park practice football field and shoves his right outside linebacker: “Why are you waiting for him to come to you?” he demands, then shows the young man how ...

Singer Olamide has recalled his life’s experiences while growing up in a shanty town. While speaking in a recent interview with The Guardian UK, Baddo Sneh disclosed how growing up in a slum in the ...

In the early 90s, teenagers LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman recorded a week of their lives on Chicago's South Side. Working with StoryCorps founder Dave Isay, LeAlan and Lloyd produced a documentary ...

Hounded by memories of ghetto life, Arie Kasiarz hadn’t been able to sleep. He rarely talked about his hardships during the war, once fainting at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The ...

The song is titled “The Sewing Song,” and it rhythmically echoes the pace of a spinning wheel. It’s a simple melody that captures a complex topic: the day-to-day struggle of life in the Warsaw Ghetto.

The online exhibit tells the story of Yitskhok Rudashevski, who documented his life in the ghetto from 1941 to 1943. Growing up in Vilna in the 1930s, Yitskhok Rudashevski was a typical 13-year-old ...

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